⚠️ Archived ⚠️

This extension has been archived and is no longer maintained by the Grafana team.

At this time, the tracing feature is now available in the as part of the k6/experimental/tracing module in k6 OSS.

Furthermore, Distributed Tracing in Grafana Cloud k6 is now generally available in Grafana Cloud.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

xk6-distributed-tracing

This extension adds distributed tracing support to k6!

That means that if you're testing an instrumented system, you can use this extension to start the traces on k6.

Currently, it supports HTTP requests and the following propagation formats: w3c, b3, and jaeger.

It is implemented using the xk6 extension system.

Build

To build a k6 binary with this extension, first ensure you have the prerequisites:

• Go toolchain
• Git

Then:

1. Download xk6:

$ go install go.k6.io/xk6/cmd/xk6@latest

2. Build the binary:

$ xk6 build --with github.com/grafana/xk6-distributed-tracing@latest

Example

import tracing, { Http } from 'k6/x/tracing';
import { sleep } from 'k6';

export let options = {
  vus: 1,
  iterations: 10,
};

export function setup() {
  console.log(`Running xk6-distributed-tracing v${tracing.version}`, tracing);
}

export default function() {
  const http = new Http({
    propagator: "w3c",
  });
  const r = http.get('https://test-api.k6.io');
  console.log(`trace_id=${r.trace_id}`);
  sleep(1);
}

Result output:

$ ./k6 run script.js

          /\      |‾‾| /‾‾/   /‾‾/
     /\  /  \     |  |/  /   /  /
    /  \/    \    |     (   /   ‾‾\
   /          \   |  |\  \ |  (‾)  |
  / __________ \  |__| \__\ \_____/ .io

  execution: local
     script: script.js
     output: -

  scenarios: (100.00%) 1 scenario, 1 max VUs, 40s max duration (incl. graceful stop):
           * default: 1 looping VUs for 10s (gracefulStop: 30s)

INFO[0000] Running xk6-distributed-tracing v0.2.0  source=console
INFO[0000] trace_id=743fff0b96778539acb7139e72ea1e33
INFO[0001] trace_id=365f4637a52526db1de2d30a5568ca3a
INFO[0002] trace_id=c49e1df945049c5c3c8b59acc84d7d3b
INFO[0003] trace_id=53e1937d56aa172b46d2310e3380dfe9
INFO[0004] trace_id=d61e8757d35c9ca1780b88977ac56d72
INFO[0005] trace_id=358e794ed636d268a918dcd2f3f9db0a
INFO[0006] trace_id=992a959e09ee84f3905a215bec8b53a0
INFO[0007] trace_id=aee11c64de11744ab5b66d5dd8ed361b
INFO[0008] trace_id=c4dc45d857e99ede2bb902666457239d
INFO[0009] trace_id=7623d10293d9f03c15deb8055935664e

running (10.1s), 0/1 VUs, 10 complete and 0 interrupted iterations
default ✓ [======================================] 1 VUs  10s

     █ setup

     data_received..............: 1.6 kB 156 B/s
     data_sent..................: 1.7 kB 165 B/s
     http_req_blocked...........: avg=223.43µs min=146.53µs med=217.39µs max=314.54µs p(90)=276.68µs p(95)=295.61µs
     http_req_connecting........: avg=137.18µs min=87.22µs  med=130.17µs max=196.38µs p(90)=184.38µs p(95)=190.38µs
     http_req_duration..........: avg=6.58ms   min=5.07ms   med=6.45ms   max=7.91ms   p(90)=7.83ms   p(95)=7.87ms
     http_req_receiving.........: avg=187.27µs min=94.29µs  med=171.7µs  max=295.67µs p(90)=293.28µs p(95)=294.48µs
     http_req_sending...........: avg=128.07µs min=94.64µs  med=121.77µs max=175.65µs p(90)=160.41µs p(95)=168.03µs
     http_req_tls_handshaking...: avg=0s       min=0s       med=0s       max=0s       p(90)=0s       p(95)=0s
     http_req_waiting...........: avg=6.27ms   min=4.83ms   med=6.13ms   max=7.64ms   p(90)=7.56ms   p(95)=7.6ms
     http_reqs..................: 10     0.991797/s
     iteration_duration.........: avg=916.48ms min=65.67µs  med=1s       max=1s       p(90)=1s       p(95)=1s
     iterations.................: 10     0.991797/s
     vus........................: 1      min=1 max=1
     vus_max....................: 1      min=1 max=1