Lunaticlog
Lunaticlog is a mock HTTP log generator package, use it's fake log workloads to test if your monitor / analyzer can survive various extreme conditions.
Documentation
Lunaticlog's documentation can be found on https://xuwenyihust.github.io/lunaticlog/lunaticlog/html/.
Overview
Lunaticlog can generate logs with customized contents. The log traffic can also be configured.
Supported Log Format
What kinds of log formats does it support now?
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Apache Access Log
127.0.0.1 user-identifier frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326
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[TODO] Nginx Access Log
123.65.150.10 - - [23/Aug/2010:03:50:59 +0000] "POST /wordpress3/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "http://www.example.com/wordpress3/wp-admin/post-new.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.25 Safari/534.3"
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[TODO] Amazon S3 Log
79a59df900b949e55d96a1e698fbacedfd6e09d98eacf8f8d5218e7cd47ef2be mybucket [06/Feb/2014:00:00:38 +0000] 192.0.2.3 79a59df900b949e55d96a1e698fbacedfd6e09d98eacf8f8d5218e7cd47ef2be 3E57427F3EXAMPLE REST.GET.VERSIONING - "GET /mybucket?versioning HTTP/1.1" 200 - 113 - 7 - "-" "S3Console/0.4" -
Log Generation Mode
The fate of lunaticlog is to create chaos to test your system. So it needs to generate various extreme cases, such as sudden traffic spikes.
What traffic modes are supported now?
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uniform
Generate logs at a random rate, which is uniformly distributed.
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push
Generate logs at highest speed(which can be configured).
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spike
Generate logs at sudden very high rates periodically.
The scripts to plot these bandwidth charts can be found under ./scripts
.
Output Formats
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STDOUT
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.log
file -
.gz
file
Install
pip install lunaticlog
Usage Example
apache Class
from lunaticlog import apache
log_gen = apache(out_path='./apache.log', lines=['heartbeat', 'access'])
log_gen.run()
License
See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (MIT).