Nov 13, 2025

an Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Performance Testing . The report recognizes Grafana Cloud k6 for its strong innovation, comprehensive platform capabilities, and ability to help organizations continuously validate performance and reliability across the entire software delivery lifecycle. According to GigaOm, Grafana Labs achieved top positioning due to its cross-functional design for developers, platform teams, SREs, QA engineers, and performance testers, along with its focus on integrated observability and testing. The firm highlighted Grafana Cloud k6's ability to support both pre-deployment load testing and post-deployment performance monitoring within the same observability stack. "[Grafana Cloud] increasingly provides a centralized platform for Dev, QA, and application teams through its cross-cutting capabilities with observability, testing, and SLOs. The goal is to enable organizations to continuously validate performance and user experience—from development through production—within the same platform they trust for observability. A key part of this strategy includes leveraging AI capabilities to improve both test authoring and analysis," said Dana Hernandez, Analyst, GigaOm. "Grafana Labs is positioned as a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant of the cloud performance testing Radar chart [and] scored well on a number of decision criteria, including no-code/low-code test creation and maintenance, deployment environment support, and APM integration." Driving Unified Performance and Observability Grafana Cloud k6 is a product within Grafana Cloud that enables teams to author, automate, and scale load and performance tests (controlled traffic that validates capacity, latency, and reliability) while correlating results with real-time application and infrastructure telemetry in Grafana Cloud. With k6 Studio, teams gain an intuitive environment that lowers the barrier to performance testing and accelerates adoption across engineering, QA, and DevOps teams. By leveraging AI-powered insights in Grafana Cloud, k6 provides a single, unified path for performance validation and user experience monitoring from early development through production. “Grafana Cloud k6 helps give our developers the confidence to make even the most complicated changes and performance optimizations with peace of mind,” said Ihar Zhavarankau, Senior Software Engineer at fuboTV. “With k6, we can ensure that no regression reaches the production environment.” Grafana Cloud k6 supports both platform/SRE teams that provision tooling for product teams, and QA/performance engineering teams that run and maintain tests directly, to standardize and scale performance testing across hundreds of services and squads. These teams can onboard developers onto a unified, cloud-based testing and observability experience in Grafana Cloud, ensuring consistency in tooling, methodology, and governance. This unified approach delivers measurable business value: faster delivery of reliable digital experiences, fewer costly production incidents, and higher developer productivity. “Being recognized as both a Leader and an Outperformer by GigaOm underscores our commitment to empowering organizations with vendor-neutral, scalable, and developer-friendly solutions,” said Pawel Suwala, Senior Director, Engineering, Grafana Labs. “Performance testing is no longer a standalone activity; it must be tightly integrated with observability to ensure resilience and reliability in today's complex, cloud-native systems. Grafana Cloud k6 delivers exactly that.” Key Strengths Highlighted by GigaOm Resources About Grafana Labs Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, enabling organizations to see, understand, and act on all their disparate data so they can move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 25 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we're backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X