Microgateway plugin test

[ivanzcai]

Hi All, I am currently learning to use microgateway and I have installed a couple of plugins such as Qouta and Spike Arrest. The installation is on my local pc and I am using port 8000. when I installed those plugins I used a small allowable figure such as

spikearrest:

timeUnit: minute

allow: 3

bufferSize: 5

When I tried to set the alert by calling the micro gateway api i have failed to trigger the spike arrest mechanism no matter how fast I do it. The question is how do I check the plugin status to see if it's been installed correctly. if it is, the reason for not working is because I am calling it using the same machine and therefore bypass the tripping mechanism?

[Former Community Member]

If start MG in debug mode, you will see if the plugin was loaded.

The spike arrests' counter is one per work process. So each worker process will allow 3 per minute in your example. For testing, you might want to set buffer to 0.

[kurtkanaskie]

You can start the MG using DEBUG=* edgemicro start ...

edgemicro status will tell you how many worker processes you have.

You can also pass the --processes 1 option to set just one worker process

[mariathanner]

Hi Ivan,

I encountered the same problem (bufferSize zero in my case). Have you come to a solution?