feat: #2955 Allow to exclude some statistics from aggregation

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
+    "editor.formatOnSave": false,
     "files.exclude": {
         ".pytest_cache/**/*": true,
         "**/*.pyc": true,
@@ -44,5 +44,6 @@
         "editor.defaultFormatter": "charliermarsh.ruff"
     },
     "python.testing.pytestEnabled": false,
-    "python.testing.unittestEnabled": true
+    "python.testing.unittestEnabled": true,
+    "python.analysis.autoImportCompletions": false
 }

locust/env.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from operator import methodcaller
+from re import Pattern
 from typing import Callable, TypeVar
 
 from configargparse import Namespace
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ def __init__(
         tags: list[str] | None = None,
         locustfile: str | None = None,
         exclude_tags: list[str] | None = None,
+        exclude_from_aggregation: str | Pattern[str] | None = None,
         events: Events | None = None,
         host: str | None = None,
         reset_stats=False,
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ def __init__(
         """If set, only tasks that are tagged by tags in this list will be executed. Leave this as None to use the one from parsed_options"""
         self.exclude_tags = exclude_tags
         """If set, only tasks that aren't tagged by tags in this list will be executed. Leave this as None to use the one from parsed_options"""
-        self.stats = RequestStats()
+        self.stats = RequestStats(environment=self)
         """Reference to RequestStats instance"""
         self.host = host
         """Base URL of the target system"""
@@ -154,7 +156,7 @@ def create_worker_runner(self, master_host: str, master_port: int) -> WorkerRunn
         """
         # Create a new RequestStats with use_response_times_cache set to False to save some memory
         # and CPU cycles, since the response_times_cache is not needed for Worker nodes
-        self.stats = RequestStats(use_response_times_cache=False)
+        self.stats = RequestStats(self, use_response_times_cache=False, environment=self)
         return self._create_runner(
             WorkerRunner,
             master_host=master_host,

locust/stats.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import json
 import logging
 import os
+import re
 import signal
 import time
 from abc import abstractmethod
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
 from html import escape
 from itertools import chain
 from types import FrameType
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, NoReturn, Protocol, TypedDict, TypeVar, cast
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, NoReturn, Optional, Protocol, TypedDict, TypeVar, cast
 
 import gevent
 
@@ -184,17 +185,19 @@ class RequestStats:
     Class that holds the request statistics. Accessible in a User from self.environment.stats
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, use_response_times_cache=True):
+    def __init__(self, use_response_times_cache=True, environment: Optional[Environment]=None):
         """
         :param use_response_times_cache: The value of use_response_times_cache will be set for each StatsEntry()
                                          when they are created. Settings it to False saves some memory and CPU
                                          cycles which we can do on Worker nodes where the response_times_cache
                                          is not needed.
+        :param environment: The environment context.
         """
         self.use_response_times_cache = use_response_times_cache
         self.entries: dict[tuple[str, str], StatsEntry] = EntriesDict(self)
         self.errors: dict[str, StatsError] = {}
         self.total = StatsEntry(self, "Aggregated", None, use_response_times_cache=self.use_response_times_cache)
+        self.environment = environment
         self.history = []
 
     @property
@@ -217,8 +220,17 @@ def last_request_timestamp(self):
     def start_time(self):
         return self.total.start_time
 
+    def exclude_from_total(self, method: str, name: str):
+        exclude_from_aggregation = getattr(getattr(self, "environment", None), "exclude_from_aggregation", None)
+        if exclude_from_aggregation:
+            found_in_method = re.search(exclude_from_aggregation, method)
+            found_in_name = re.search(exclude_from_aggregation, name)
+            return found_in_method or found_in_name
+        return False
+
     def log_request(self, method: str, name: str, response_time: int, content_length: int) -> None:
-        self.total.log(response_time, content_length)
+        if not self.exclude_from_total(method, name):
+            self.total.log(response_time, content_length)
         self.entries[(name, method)].log(response_time, content_length)
 
     def log_error(self, method: str, name: str, error: Exception | str | None) -> None:

locust/test/test_stats.py

@@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ def test_total_rps(self):
         self.assertAlmostEqual(s2.total_rps, 1 / 5.0)
         self.assertEqual(self.stats.total.total_rps, 10 / 5.0)
 
+    def test_total_exclude_from_aggregation(self):
+        env = Environment()
+        self.stats.environment = env
+        # First without exclusion
+        self.stats.log_request("CUSTOM", "some_name", 1337, 1337)
+        self.assertEqual(self.stats.num_requests(), 1)
+        # Second with exclusion
+        env.exclude_from_aggregation = r"CUSTOM"
+        self.stats.log_request("CUSTOM", "some_name", 1337, 1337)
+        self.assertEqual(self.stats.num_requests(), 1)
+
     def test_rps_less_than_one_second(self):
         s = StatsEntry(self.stats, "percentile_test", "GET")
         for i in range(10):