Looking for a way to do automated test logins to Confluence (to detect application downtime).

Question

Hello,

I'm looking for a recommendation for a tool we can run from another computer on our network to periodically test logins to Confluence v5.9.2 (and alert us when it stops becoming possible)? I know there's many choices out there, hoping for one that confirmed works with Confluence logins. Also that could ideally log out of the session after (as if a login is successful, I know the next login will warn that you are already logged in, which I think would break most automated login scripts).

Please let me know, thank you.

-Max

Steven F Behnke · Answer

You should be able to use basic authentication. Let me dig a little bit into that.

Max Hozven · Answer

Joseph,

Thank you for your suggestion below.

I have not used jmeter before, but just watched a video demonstration, I will try it out for this purpose.  If I can get it to work, I'll have to figure out how to script it and determine when it fails so it can email me an alert.  Have you ever done something like this before in your environment?

Here's the video I found for others who are interested:

JMeter - How To Login Into A Web Application

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGkrSFKcj10

Thank you.

-Max

Max Hozven · Answer

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion, much appreciated.

In our case, when the problem surfaces, the web page always responds (displaying login/password), after you enter a login and password, in the bottom left hand corner of the browser (Firefox) it says "Waiting for server confluence.example.com".

If we used a shell script 
 with the above, could we add login/password info, so it would try to login and enter a different result code for success vs. error?

The most I've ever done in the past is write shell scripts to ping hosts or determine if http/https is responding, nothing with automated logins.

-Max