Scala script to generate random http log events to a output file specified, one can specify the number of events to generate per second. Also, class IPGenerator can take in number of sessions and session length which can be used to simulate a user returning back.

RandomHttpLogGen.scala

#!/bin/sh
exec scala -savecompiled "$0" "$@"

!#
import scala.collection.mutable.Map
import scala.util.Random
import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
import java.io._

class IPGenerator(var sessionCount: Int, var sessionLength: Int) {
  var sessions = Map[String, Int]()

	def get_ip = {
		sessionGc
		sessionCreate
		val ip = sessions.keys.toSeq(Random.nextInt(sessions.size))
		sessions(ip) += 1
		ip
	}

	private def sessionCreate = {
		while(sessions.size < sessionCount) {
			sessions(randomIp) = 0
		}
	}

	private def sessionGc = {
		for((ip, count) <- sessions) {
			if (count >= sessionLength) sessions.remove(ip)
		}
	}

	private def randomIp: String = {
		val random = Random
		var octets = ArrayBuffer[Int]()
		octets += random.nextInt(223) + 1
		(1 to 3).foreach { _ => octets += random.nextInt(255) }
		octets.mkString(".")
	}
}

class LogGenerator(val ipGenObj: IPGenerator, var messagesCount: Int = 1) {
	val EXTENSIONS = 	Map(
			"html" -> 40,
			"php" -> 30,
			"png" -> 15,
			"gif" -> 10,
			"css" -> 5
		)

	val RESPONSE_CODES = Map(
			"200" -> 92,
			"404" -> 5,
			"503" -> 3
		)

	val USER_AGENTS = Map(
			"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" -> 30,
	    "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.50 Safari/534.24" -> 30,
  	  "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110421 Firefox/6.0a1" -> 40
		)

	val random = Random

	def writeMps(dest: FileWriter, mps: Int) = {
		val sleepTime = 1000 / mps
		while(true) {
			write(dest)
			Thread.sleep(sleepTime)
			messagesCount += 1
			print(s"\rMessages Count: ${messagesCount}")
		}
	}

	def write(dest: FileWriter) = {
		val ip = ipGenObj.get_ip
		val ext = pickWeightedKey(EXTENSIONS)
		val resp_code = pickWeightedKey(RESPONSE_CODES)
		val resp_size = random.nextInt(2 * 1024) + 192;
		val ua = pickWeightedKey(USER_AGENTS)
		val format = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z")
		val date = format.format(new java.util.Date())
		try { 
			val bw = new BufferedWriter(dest)
			bw.write(s"${ip} - - [${date}]" + " \"GET /test." + ext + " HTTP/1.1\" " +
				s"${resp_code} ${resp_size} " + "\"-\" \"" + ua + "\"\n")	
			bw.flush()	  
		} catch {
		  case e: Exception => e.printStackTrace
		}
	}

	private def pickWeightedKey(map: Map[String, Int]): String = {
		var total = 0
		map.values.foreach { weight => total += weight }
		val rand = Random.nextInt(total)
		var running = 0
		for((key, weight) <- map) {
			if(rand >= running && rand < (running + weight)) {
				return key
			}
			running += weight
		}
		map.keys.head
	}
}

object RandomHttpLogGen extends App {
	val usage = """
	Usage: random_gen <file_path> <mps>

		file_path - path of the file where to write the log events to
		mps - messages to generate per second

	Random Http log events generator, simulates generating log events with random_ip(s)
	"""

	if(args.length != 2) {
		System.err.println(usage)
		System.exit(1)
	}

	val outputFile = new File(args(0))
	val messagesPerSec = args(1).toInt
	val outputFileWriter = new FileWriter(outputFile)

	sys.addShutdownHook {
		println("")
		println("Caught ^C, Aborting ...")
		println("closing file")
		outputFileWriter.close()
	}

	try { 
		println(s"Generating random log events to ${outputFile} @ ${messagesPerSec}/second")	
		println("Press Ctrl-C to abort")
		new LogGenerator(new IPGenerator(100, 10)).writeMps(outputFileWriter, messagesPerSec)
	} catch {
	  case e: Exception => e.printStackTrace
	} finally {
		println("closing file")
		outputFileWriter.close()
	}
}

RandomHttpLogGen.main(args)

Usage.md

chmod +x RandomHttpLogGen.scala && ./RandomHttpLogGen.scala /tmp/apache.log 50

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