Legacy k6 Test Services Replaced by quickpizza.grafana.com

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:speaker_high_volume: Last week, we replaced our legacy test services at https://test.k6.io, https://test-api.k6.io, https://httpbin.test.k6.io and https://grpcbin.test.k6.io with a new and improved one:
https://quickpizza.grafana.com.

What:

These test services are only provided to help users quickly run documentation examples — they’re not part of the core Grafana k6 OSS or Grafana k6 Cloud platforms.

Why:

These services had become outdated and carried a number of critical security issues, so it was important to decommission them. Unifying all test services into a single one also significantly simplifies the maintenance aspect for us. Over the years, these services have started to experience a very high amount of network traffic, so maintenance is doubly challenging.

What happens now:

  • All examples that point to one of the decommissioned test services in our documentation now automatically redirect to quickpizza.grafana.com.
  • We are still in the process of removing references to test.k6.io in our Grafana k6 OSS documentation.

Help us spread the word:

If you happen to spot any outdated references — whether in our docs or out in the wild, like in third party courses or tutorials on popular learning platforms — give us a heads-up. Kindly letting the third party content creators know (e.g. in the comments section of their video or course) about the new quickpizza.grafana.com service would be a small gesture with a big impact. :folded_hands: It helps ensure others don’t run into confusion, and your help in spreading the word is truly appreciated.

If you have any questions, please let us know by replying in this thread.

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Thanks for the heads-up, one week after the fact.

Look, I get it. The services were old, insecure, and you had no obligation to maintain them or provide a specific level of service. That’s fine. And thank you for offering them in the first place. It was a great service from you.

But it would have been nice if you had communicated this in advance, not after the fact. Did you do a quick Google search to see how many written tutorials are still using test.k6.io as an example? People are already confused. People who are trying to learn and use k6. We all want to grow this community, don’t we?

I mean, you didn’t even fully update your own documentation before pulling these services offline.

Just redirecting the traffic to a different domain is not a great way to communicate the change. You should have just kept the old domain and subdomains and replaced the main page with pretty much what you said above, an announcement.