locust doesn't record all the requests

[Chrisbuuren]

Hello all,
I am using locust and there is a problem with the total number of requests recorded by the API and WebUI.
I started a tests with 1 client and hatch 1, and looked on my application log and counted the request. The locust WebUI showed me that they were 26 requests made after I stoped the test, but in the /var/log/httpd/access_log I counted 31 requests ..so there is a difference by 5 requests which haven't been displayed neither in API nor WebUI.

[aldenpeterson-wf]

I have seen some requests happen while locust itself is initializing

[heyman]

This might also happen if a request returns a HTTP redirect, since I believe the default behaviour for python requests is to follow redirects, and Locust will then group them both (all) together and record them under a single request entry.

It could definitely be argued that they should be recorded separately, but that would cause problem in cases where one is using the name argument to group together URLs that have some dynamic parts (e.g. an ID).