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⚪ Grafana's k6 load testing UI had a brief identity crisis where it forgot what 'performance' meant. Engineers applied the digital equivalent of smelling salts and it's back to normal. Lesson: even tools that test performance can't test themselves apparently. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jun 18, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Degraded k6 cloud UI performance

// Status page says

Jun 18 , 13:15 UTC Monitoring - The root cause of the issue has been identified and a fix has been successfully deployed. We are observing widespread improvements across all systems. Our team is currently monitoring the environment to ensure performance remains stable. Jun 18 , 11:45 UTC Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Jun 1

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.grafana.com/incidents/dh79r2tlwrc8

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