https://github.com/kiritbasu/Fake-Apache-Log-Generator

Generate a boatload of Fake Apache Log files very quickly
https://github.com/kiritbasu/Fake-Apache-Log-Generator

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Generate a boatload of Fake Apache Log files very quickly

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kiritbasu/Fake-Apache-Log-Generator
• Owner: kiritbasu
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2015-12-18T18:36:52.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-08T20:51:28.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-13T23:27:46.613Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: apache, fake, faker, logs, python
• Language: Python
• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 274
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 235
• Open Issues: 12
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# Fake Apache Log Generator

This script generates a boatload of fake apache logs very quickly. Its useful for generating fake workloads for [data ingest](http://github.com/streamsets/datacollector) and/or analytics applications.

It can write log lines to console, to log files or directly to gzip files.

It utilizes the excellent [Faker](https://github.com/joke2k/faker/) library to generate realistic ip's, URI's etc.

***

## Basic Usage

Generate a single log line to STDOUT

```

$ python apache-fake-log-gen.py  

```

Generate 100 log lines into a .log file

```

$ python apache-fake-log-gen.py -n 100 -o LOG 

```

Generate 100 log lines into a .gz file at intervals of 10 seconds

```

$ python apache-fake-log-gen.py -n 100 -o GZ -s 10

```

Infinite log file generation (useful for testing File Tail Readers)

```

$ python apache-fake-log-gen.py -n 0 -o LOG 

```

Prefix the output filename 

```

$ python apache-fake-log-gen.py -n 100 -o LOG -p WEB1

```

Detailed help

```

$ python apache-fake-log-gen.py -h

usage: apache-fake-log-gen.py [-h] [--output {LOG,GZ,CONSOLE}]

                              [--num NUM_LINES] [--prefix FILE_PREFIX]

                              [--sleep SLEEP]

Fake Apache Log Generator

optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  --output {LOG,GZ,CONSOLE}, -o {LOG,GZ,CONSOLE}

                        Write to a Log file, a gzip file or to STDOUT

  --num NUM_LINES, -n NUM_LINES

                        Number of lines to generate (0 for infinite)

  --prefix FILE_PREFIX, -p FILE_PREFIX

                        Prefix the output file name

  --sleep SLEEP, -s SLEEP

                        Sleep this long between lines (in seconds)

```

## Requirements

* Python 2.7

* ```pip install -r requirements.txt```

## License

This script is released under the [Apache version 2](LICENSE) license.