%% date:: [[2023-01-20]] %% # [[Frontend observability with Grafana Faro x k6]] [Video](https://youtu.be/NDqmW9kmIy8) Speakers:: "[[Stefan Dunkler]], [[Marie Cruz]], [[Paul Balogh]]" <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NDqmW9kmIy8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> - [[Stefan Dunkler]], Solution Engineer at Grafana Labs (joined 1.5 years ago) - [[Grafana Faro]] is a tool for [[Real User Monitoring]]: profiling a single user's experience - Good because (backend) load testing metrics like 10,000 rps do not say what the single user's experience is. This could be ok for some apps and bad for others. - Faro measures [[Core Web Vitals]] - Faro and [[k6 browser]] integration Uses [[Grafana Faro]] with k6 - just need to import the Faro SDK - [repo](https://github.com/Condla/web-shop-o11y-demo) [Introduction to Grafana Faro](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/introducing-grafana-faro-oss-application-observability/) ## Citations ``` [^faro]: Grafana k6, Cruz, M. et al. (2023). *Frontend observability with Grafana Faro x k6 (k6 Office Hours).* Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqmW9kmIy8 . ```