Workshop delivered with Tom Donohue at Cloud Native Days Nowrway 2026

Incidents are expensive, stressful, and lead to poor user experiences. The good news is that they’re also preventable. With the right tools and practices, you can uncover and address performance issues before they affect your users.

Performance issues are easier to address when you find them before your users do. In this beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to combine load testing and observability to understand how your applications behave under load.

You’ll write and run k6 scripts, simulate API traffic, define checks and performance thresholds, and analyze results in Grafana to identify potential bottlenecks.

We’ll then explore how to scale beyond a single machine using the k6 Operator to orchestrate distributed load tests on Kubernetes.

By the end of this two-hour workshop, you’ll be able to:

• Write and run k6 scripts to test APIs under load.
• Use checks and thresholds to evaluate responses and performance.
• Interpret test results in Grafana.
• Understand how the k6 Operator distributes tests across Kubernetes runners.

Requirements:

• Laptop with WiFi, a browser, terminal, and code editor
• Git
• Docker with Docker Compose
• kind and kubectl – kind runs the local Kubernetes cluster using Docker

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Recording: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/k6-performance-testing-and-observability-in-grafana-cloud-emea/

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring a smooth and reliable end-user experience is critical. Join us to explore how Grafana’s suite of observability tools—Grafana Cloud k6, Frontend Observability, and Synthetic Monitoring—helps engineering teams test, monitor, and optimize user journeys across the software lifecycle.

Best of all, you’ll learn how to reuse the same k6 test scripts across performance testing and synthetic monitoring, streamlining workflows across development, QA, and production.

Whether you’re focused on frontend development, QA, or production reliability, this webinar will show how Grafana provides full visibility into your most critical user experiences.

What you’ll learn

1. Gain real-time insights into user interactions with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability.
2. Proactively performance test key user flows with Grafana Cloud k6.
3. Continuously validate those same flows in production with Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring.

RSVP: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/k6-performance-testing-and-observability-in-grafana-cloud-emea/

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