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Starting load test from the cli but monitoring from the web UI

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I think this is a feature request. I’m expecting that I can use locust CLI to start the load test, but monitor the results from the web UI.

Description of issue / feature request

When I run locust --host=... -c 10 -r 5 it doesn’t start anything. Because it starts the web UI, which presents the user a form to manually start the load test.

Expected behavior

I expect locust to start the test and let me monitor the results from the web UI.

Actual behavior

locust ignores the -c and -r when --no-web is specified.

Environment settings (for bug reports)

Locust version: 0.8.1

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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nealedjcommented, Nov 28, 2018

As a bit of a hack to gain a programmatic interface you could start locust with the web UI and then make a POST request to the /swarm endpoint with the hatch_rate and locust_count values.

E.g. curl -XPOST -d "hatch_rate=5&locust_count=100" http://my-locust-master-host/swarm

Then GET /stop when you’re done.

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cyberwcommented, Aug 29, 2021

I’m making a fix for this…