A tiny Go utility to generate a large amount realistic-looking Nginx logs quickly. It was written to aid in testing logging pipelines and other such tools, and demoing them in Kubernetes.

Most of the heavy lifting is done by the amazing gofakeit library, with some extra work to skew the results towards typical values.

The most important step is to set the desired rate in the RATE environment variable. The simplest way to do this is the following:

$ # Will generate 10 entries per second
$ RATE=10 ./nginx-log-generator

The reason this is an environment variable is so it's easier to run via Docker as well:

$ docker pull kscarlett/nginx-log-generator
$ docker run -e "RATE=10" kscarlett/nginx-log-generator

The following environment variables can be set to modify the output.

This is a tool I made in no time at all, because I needed a tool that did exactly this right that second. The code quality isn't optimal and it can probably be optimised. I will be coming back to it at some other time.

This tool is released under the MIT License.