k6 VS tracetest

I know this is about Desktop HTTP testing but has anyone experimented with command-line HTTP testing?

I recall having a good experience with https://github.com/grafana/k6 some eons ago.

It's geared towards writing load testing in JS but it also allows you to check HTTP body, headers, etc.

K6' usage - pretty friggin robust - is here https://github.com/grafana/k6/tree/master/js

k6 allows you to build performant load tests that take a fraction of the resources legacy load-testing tools require. The tests are written in an easy-to-follow JavaScript form and can be extended with a number of extensions. The tests execute via a Go-JavaScript compiler so they take a minimal amount of resources when being executed, allowing the scaling of load tests with fewer resources.

I’d use K6 for this. It’s been optimised for this purpose. https://github.com/grafana/k6

k6

k6 0.38.1 is a minor patch. To view all the new features, check out k6 0.38.0 tag. Following are the noteworthy features in 0.38.0.

Code Example

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git clone https://github.com/kubeshop/tracetest cd tracetest/examples/setup-of-tracetest-tests

The code to execute this scenario is contained in the delete_test.ts file from a repo which we will clone and run locally further in this article. First, let’s discuss the code for the key sections that are utilizing the [@tracetest/client](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tracetest/client) NPM package.

If you want to see the code example right away, check it out on GitHub, here.

If you’re eager to start, clone the example from GitHub and get a Tracetest Agent public URL and Token after signing up at app.tracetest.io. Sign up for a Cloudflare account on

For this example, I’ll showcase this simple example app for Tracetest and Sumo Logic. To quickly access the example, you can run the following:

If you get stuck along the tutorial, feel free to check out the example app in the GitHub repo, here.

It’s official! You can now use synthetic monitoring to run trace-based tests with Tracetest’s new GitHub Action. I’ve already implemented dogfooding and it’s currently running in production as health checks, running hourly, here.