mock-es

What is it

An API and CLI application for running a mock elasticsearch server. The server implements the absoulte minimum for something like filebeat to connect to it and send bulk requests. The data that is sent is thrown away. The server can be configured to send error responses but by default all actions succeed.

Use cases

If you are developing Dashboards for Elastic Agent and want to make sure that the errors Dashboards display correctly you could start mock-es configured to return errors and then direct the integrations to send data to mock-es. This would allow you to prove that when errors occur the Dashboards are populated correctly.

You are developing a feature that splits the batch when StatusEntityTooLarge is returned. You could write a unit test that start the server from the API with a 100% chance of returning that error, then send data, making sure that the split happens as expected and checking the metrics that StatusEntityTooLarge was returned.

Building the CLI server

git clone https://github.com/elastic/mock-es.git
cd mock-es/cmd/mock-es
go build

Running the CLI server

To run the server with defaults (port 9200, no TLS, always succeed). Simply run the executable:

./mock-es

Options are used to change the behavior.

General options

Flag	Meaning
-addr string	address to listen on ip:port (default ":9200")
-clusteruuid string	Cluster UUID of Elasticsearch we are mocking, needed if beat is being monitored by metricbeat
-metrics duration	Go 'time.Duration' to wait between printing metrics to stdout, 0 is no metrics
-delay duration	Go 'time.Duration' to wait before processing API request, 0 is no delay

TLS Options

Both certfile and keyfile are needed to enable TLS

Flag	Meaning
-certfile string	path to PEM certificate file, empty sting is no TLS
-keyfile string	path to PEM private key file, empty sting is no TLS

Error Option

Flag	Meaning
-toolarge uint	percent chance StatusEntityTooLarge is returned for POST method on _bulk endpoint
-dup uint	percent chance StatusConflict is returned for create action
-nonindex uint	percent chance StatusNotAcceptable is returned for create action
-toomany uint	percent chance StatusTooManyRequests is returned for create action

-toolarge will be for the entire POST to the _bulk endpoint. The others are for each individual create action in the bulk request. -toolarge cannot be larger than 100. The sum of -dup, -noindex, and -toomany cannot be larger than 100.

Example

./mock-es -toolarge 20 -dup 5 -nonindex 10 -toomany 15

This means there is a 20% chance the POST to _bulk will return StatusEntityTooLarge, and an 80% chance it will succeed. There is a 5% chance that the create action will return StatusConflict (duplicate entry), a 10% chance that the create action will return StatusNotAcceptable (non index) and a 15% chance that the create action will return StatusTooManyRequests.

Using in a Unit Test

Rather than trying to build and shell out to run the mock-es executable it is much easier to just create the server in your tests. A minimal example would be:

import (
	"net/http"
	"time"

	"github.com/elastic/mock-es/pkg/api"
	"github.com/google/uuid"
	"github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics"
)

func main() {
	mux := http.NewServeMux()
	mux.Handle("/", api.NewAPIHandler(uuid.New(), "", metrics.DefaultRegistry, time.Now().Add(24 *time.Hour) , 0, 0, 0, 0))
	if err := http.ListenAndServe("localhost:9200", mux); err != nil {
		if err != http.ErrServerClosed {
			panic(err)
		}
	}
}

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