K6 || API/Application Load Testing through POST call

Let’s Solve this Above title using the STAR method

“STAR” is an acronym that stands for situation, task, action(s), and result(s).

Situation

Today I faced an issue reported by my developers that one of my Backend login APIs written in Node is getting timed out, which shows a 502 Error

Task

Action(s)

Result(s)

References

• https://k6.io/docs/javascript-api/k6-http/post/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71163585/k6-use-post-to-login-in
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73687855/how-to-push-request-a-csrf-token-in-k6-performance-testing-tool-referenceerror
• https://github.com/grafana/k6/blob/ef717e1af2a92d35d39a3d815a69b6ab6b8c65e1/cmd/root.go#L228
• https://youtu.be/Q9iE0d1Zkms
• https://youtu.be/Be66Db4wHLA