Record and export proxy activity

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To record and export proxy activity, use the ExecutionSummaryPlugin and a reporter plugin in your configuration file.

The following example shows how to configure the Dev Proxy to record and export proxy activity using the ExecutionSummaryPlugin and the MarkdownReporter plugin.

{
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "ExecutionSummaryPlugin",
      "enabled": true,
      "pluginPath": "~appFolder/plugins/dev-proxy-plugins.dll"
    },
    {
        "name": "MarkdownReporter",
        "enabled": true,
        "pluginPath": "~appFolder/plugins/dev-proxy-plugins.dll"
    }
  ],
  "urlsToWatch": [
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/*"
  ]
}

Note

To export the activity, the reporter plugin must be enabled in the configuration file and placed after the ExecutionSummaryPlugin in the plugins list. It is recommended to place a reporter plugin at the end of the plugins list.

To record activity, Dev Proxy must be placed in record mode.

There are two ways to start recording:

  • Record immediately. Start proxy with --record option, for example, devproxy --record.
  • Record adhoc. Press R while proxy is running.

When recording is enabled, ? Recording... is shown in the proxy output.

To generate a report from the recorded activity, stop recording.

There are two ways to stop recording:

  • Stop proxy. Press Ctrl + C.
  • Stop adhoc. Press S.

By default, activities grouped by URL. To group activity by message type, use the --summary-group-by option.

devproxy --record --summary-group-by messageType

Note

All recording is local. No data is sent to Microsoft.