Auto-generate RUM data

[stevedatadog]

Script a headless browser to interact with the Storedog UI. Perhaps part of the traffic container? Selenium, PhantomJS, etc.

[stevedatadog]

@obensource and @ryanmaclean are working on a solution using puppeteer.

[stevedatadog]

We have a solution for this that uses a 3rd party docker image and two custom scripts. The container will run puppeteer.sh, which in turn runsnode puppeteer.js in an infinite loop. puppeteer.js clicks on a bunch of Storedog UI selectors across multiple pages:

 puppeteer:
    image: buildkite/puppeteer:10.0.0
    volumes:
      - /root/puppeteer-mobile.js:/puppeteer.js
      - /root/puppeteer.sh:/puppeteer.sh
    environment: 
      - RUM_START_URL
    depends_on:
      - frontend
    command: bash puppeteer.sh

This is probably not general-purpose enough to add by default to the stack, but it's a good starting point for a flexible solution.

[stanleegoodspeed]

@stevedatadog is there a working branch for this? I can try and pick this up if need be

[stevedatadog]

Here's one example in our Learning Center scenarios used in Dash workshops. The docker-compose.yml file has a block like the one I pasted above. The JS and Bash scripts are in there, too. Maybe our own image complete with those scripts? Users could then mount their own scripts on top of the defaults for custom behavior.

[stevedatadog]

In our cross-team meeting today, we resolved that we will deprecate traffic-replay in favor of a puppeteer alternative. The new puppeteer image must:

• Generate a broad range of traffic and user events across storedog
• Generate the same traffic that traffic-replay currently does