Fake traffic generator for Gartner Demo
Generate fake traffic to URLs with custom user-agents
Usage
Tested with Python 3.9.5 and pip 22.0.3 on MacOS 10.15.7
I highly recommend you always run each Python project within its own virtualenv. The commands below assume you have already created and activated a virtualenv for this project.
git clone [email protected]:newrelic-experimental/fake-user-agent-traffic-geneator.git
cd fake-user-agent-traffic-geneator
pip install -r requirements.txt
python generate.py
Config
Configuration is done via the config.toml file.
Global settings
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| concurrency | int | max asyncio primitives |
| urls | list[str] | List of URLs to target |
Target settings
The target of each request is grouped together into Targets
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| allowed_request_types | list[str] | Allowed request types |
| url | str | The URL to request |
| form | Optional[Dict[str, Dict[str, str]]] | Form submission details for request (browser only) |
| form.button_selector | str | CSS selector of the form submit button |
| form.inputs.selector | str | CSS selector for form input field |
| form.inputs.value | str | Value to enter into form input field |
Request settings
Request specific settings are grouped together into Personas, you can create as many personas as you would like for each run.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| request_type | “browser” or “api” | How the request should be executed (“browser” is required for RUM) |
| min_requests | int | Minimum number of requests to make per URL |
| max_requests | int | Maximum number of requests to make per URL |
| timeout | Optional[int] | Request timeout in seconds |
| cache_enabled | Optional[bool] | Enable browser cache (only used when browser=true) |
| user_agents | list[str] | User-Agent strings to use. A random ua will be choosen per request |
| custom_headers | Optional[list[list[str, str]]] | Any other headers to send with the request. See the example below for syntax |
| color | str | Persona text color in progress bar |
Each custom header must be a list where index 0 is the header key and index 1 is the header value. For example:
custom_headers = [["X-Script-Version", "v0.0.1"], ["X-Something-else", "abc"]]
