apidump command reference

The apidump command captures and stores a sequence of requests and responses to a service by observing network traffic. See Examples. For help, use -h or --help.

Usage

$
postman-insights-agent apidump [flags]

Flags

• --filter string - Match the packets going to and coming from the API service.
• --host-allow strings - Allow only the HTTP hosts matching the regular expressions.
• --host-exclusions strings - Remove the HTTP hosts matching the regular expressions.
• --interfaces strings - List of network interfaces to listen on. Default: All interfaces on host.
• --path-allow strings - Allow only the HTTP paths matching the regular expressions.
• --path-exclusions strings - Remove the HTTP paths matching the regular expressions.
• --project string - The Postman Insights project ID.
• --rate-limit float - Number of requests per minute to capture. Default: 1000.

Global flags

• --log-format string - Set to color, plain, or json to control the log format.
• --proxy string - The domain name, IP address, or URL of an HTTP proxy server to use.

Examples

• Capture all traffic from your collection and send it to the Insights Agent.

  $
  postman-insights-agent apidump --project <projectId>

• Filter out requests fetching files with .png or .jpg extensions.

  $
  postman-insights-agent apidump ... --path-exclusions '.*\.png' --path-exclusions '.*\.jpg' ...

• Filter out requests having host deb.debian.org.

  $
  postman-insights-agent apidump ... --host-exclusions 'deb\.debian\.org' ...

• Only allow requests having host www.example.com.

  $
  postman-insights-agent apidump ... --host-allow 'www\.example\.com' ...

• Only allow requests related to the admin endpoints.

  $
  postman-insights-agent apidump ... --path-allow '*/admin/*' ...