# K6 Load Testing on Laravel Cloud: 17,000 Requests per Second and Autoscaling Under Pressure

DevFeed: [K6 Load Testing on Laravel Cloud: 17,000 Requests per Second and Autoscaling Under Pressure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/k6-load-testing-on-laravel-cloud-17-000-requests-per-second-and-autoscaling-under-pressure-3736.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/k6-load-testing-on-laravel-cloud>)

Author: Devon Garbalosa

Published: 2026-03-25T11:35:18Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [k6](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/k6.md>), [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Grafana Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana-cloud.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nginx.md>)

Tags: [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [grafana-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana-cloud.md>), [k6](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/k6.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

A practical benchmark of Laravel Cloud using Grafana Cloud k6, a custom endpoint, 20,000 concurrent virtual users, and bimodal response-time jitter. The test sustained 17,000 requests per second while examining how autoscaling handled realistic traffic and long-lived connections.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to load test a Laravel app with k6: 20,000 virtual users, bimodal latency jitter, and Laravel Cloud autoscaling under real pressure. Here's what happened.