This script generates a boatload of fake apache logs very quickly. Its useful for generating fake workloads for data ingest and/or analytics applications.
It can write log lines to console, to log files or directly to gzip files.
It utilizes the excellent Faker library to generate realistic ip's, URI's etc.
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)
- Python 2.7
pip install -r requirements.txt
This script is released under the Apache version 2 license.
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