Identify in Tests if running through Monitors or Manually triggered

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Good day everyone,

In tests script, how do I know if the request was ran through the monitors or is called manually using the Postman app?

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I don’t believe there is an easy way to do that, what are you trying to do with this information?

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We want part of our test to run only when it’s running thru the monitors.

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My only thought here is setting a variable to drive the workflows.

If you create an environment variable called ‘isLocalRun’ you can set the initial value to false and the current value to true.

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In your tests, you can check the value of that variable to see how to branch your workflow. A monitor will always read the initial value, but running locally is going to read the current value.

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This is possible by checking if your Postman script is running in AWS by checking the IP address using NodeJS.

/**
 * Checks if we are running in AWS. This is useful for reducing console output in Postman monitor.
 * @function in_aws
 * @return {Boolean}       True iff running on AWS server; False otherwise.
 */
function in_aws(){
    let ip_addr,
    in_aws = false;

    pm.sendRequest("http://api.ipify.org", (err,res) => {
        if(err){
            console.log("While trying to get IP address, got error: " + err.message);
        } else {
            ip_addr = res;
        }
    });

    const aws_ip_ranges = "https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json";
    // check if ip is in aws ip ranges
    pm.sendRequest(aws_ip_ranges, (err,res) => {
        if(err){
            console.log("While trying to get AWS IP ranges, got error: " + err.message);
        } else {
            const aws_ip_ranges = JSON.parse(res);
            for(let i = 0; i < aws_ip_ranges.prefixes.length; i++){
                if(ip_addr.includes(aws_ip_ranges.prefixes[i].ip_prefix)){
                    in_aws = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    });
    return in_aws;
}
Object.prototype.in_aws = in_aws; //When defined at a collection level, this makes in_aws available to all down-script contexts. https://stackoverflow.com/a/68998344/1757756