Stress test kafka stream application

[B0bSapp]

In order to perform stress test for kafka-stream application I need to send avro messages to specified topic. So far I can not find such possibility, I think that this would be quite useful and dramatically increase functionality of this framework.

[zkutasi]

Is there any progress or info about this? Or is there a kafka-module one can use for this?

[mostafa]

Hi @B0bSapp and @zkutasi,

There's a PR for extending k6 with plugin support, that's going to add JS plugins in Go, so that anyone can extend k6 with their own Go module/plugin: #1396
In the meantime, I've worked on a PoC, so that one can test Kafka:
https://github.com/mostafa/k6-plugin-kafka
I'd be happy to hear your feedback/suggestions about it.
BTW, also have a look at this PR:
mostafa/xk6-kafka#1

[codebien]

Closing as this is now already supported. As the previous comment mentions, mostafa/xk6-kafka is an available extension and it has good support and maintenance.

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