Looking at running pings for our servers in setup and if not 200, then end the test. I was looking a checks and thresholds but not sure how to proceed. This is a workflow test and is pretty long so would not want to run in our pipeline if the servers are not available. Any helpful hints or pointers to some feature I may have missed will be greatly appreciated. BTW newby on K6.
Thanks!
I am not sure I completely understand your use case, but you can probably have a constant-arrival-rate scenario that regularly (e.g. once every second) checks your criteria. And then either call test.abort() in the k6/execution module to stop the test when it fails, or use a custom metric (e.g. Counter) and a threshold on it with abortOnFail: true.
I was wondering if the threshold would work in the setup method? I was going down that path but unsure. I just want to have a pass/fail check in setup, if pass then continue, if fail abort test. Thanks Ned!
Ah, sorry, I missed that you want to do this check in the setup() function 
In there, it’s even easier! test.abort() will still work, but also any exception thrown in setup() will also abort the test 
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