gen-traffic

A simple HTTP traffic generator triggered by Github Action periodically.

Use cases

• Load testing.
• Traffic analysis.
• Real world traffic generation.

How to use it?

1. Fork this repository to your own GitHub repository.

2. Edit urls.txt. Each line in the file is a URL. This tool will randomly pick some URLs from the file.

   Warning For security reasons, DO NOT COMMIT YOUR HOSTNAME into this repo. Instead, use a $HOST as a PLACEHOLDER in the urls.txt. Then, add a Github Secret in your repository settings by following this doc.

3. Git commit and go!

FAQs

1. Q: What is the interval between triggering requests?

   A: By default is 10 minutes, but you can change this in .github/workflows/traffic.yml.

2. Q: How do I manually trigger requests?

   A: Please see this guide.

3. Q: How to stop triggering?

   A: To stop triggering, delete schedule in .github/workflows/traffic.yml and git commit.