Features

Rift provides advanced features for service virtualization and chaos engineering.

Core Features

Mountebank Compatibility

  • Imposters - Mock HTTP/HTTPS servers
  • Mutual TLS - Require, and optionally validate, a client certificate
  • Predicates - Flexible request matching
  • Responses - Static, proxy, and dynamic responses
  • Behaviors - Response modification and delays
  • JavaScript Injection - Dynamic response generation

Rift Extensions (_rift Namespace)

  • Fault Injection - Probabilistic latency, error, and TCP fault injection
  • Scripting - Rhai and JavaScript engines for dynamic behavior
  • Response Templates - Date tokens and the _rift.templated {{ }} function grammar
  • Scenarios (FSM) - Stateful stubs as declarative state machines
  • Flow State - Per-flow key/value store with InMemory or Redis backends, written by scripts or declaratively with _rift.stateOps
  • Correlated Isolation (Spaces) - Per-flow stub and state partitioning
  • Stub Analysis - Overlap detection and conflict warnings
  • Debug Mode - Request matching diagnostics with X-Rift-Debug header
  • Metrics - Prometheus integration

Server-Level Capabilities

  • Front Door - One listener routing to many imposters by host, path, header or method
  • Single-Port Gateway - Reach every imposter through the admin port
  • Intercept Proxy - TLS-MITM a hard-coded external HTTPS host, no mitmproxy needed
  • Hot Reload - Re-read configuration without restarting the process
  • Outbound TLS Trust - Reach an origin behind a private CA when proxying or recording
  • Imposter Sources - Load from a path or a URI, merging several sources
  • Embedding - Run the engine in-process from Rust, or any language over the C ABI

Feature Overview

Feature Mountebank Rift Extensions
HTTP/HTTPS Mocking ✅ Full support —
Mutual TLS (client certs) ⚠️ Accepted, never enforced ✅ mutualAuth / rejectUnauthorized / ca
Outbound TLS trust (private CAs) — ✅ --upstream-ca-file
Request Matching ✅ Full predicates —
Static Responses ✅ —
Proxy Recording ✅ —
JavaScript Injection ✅ —
Probabilistic Faults Via injection ✅ _rift.fault
Rhai/JS Scripting — ✅ _rift.script
Response Templates ${request.*} ✅ {{NOW}}, _rift.templated
Scenarios (FSM) Via injection ✅ stub scenarioName
Flow State Via injection ✅ _rift.flowState
Correlated Isolation — ✅ stub space
Stub Analysis — ✅ _rift.warnings
Stub IDs — ✅ id field
Debug Mode — ✅ X-Rift-Debug header
Prometheus Metrics ✅ ✅
Front Door — ✅ --front-door
Single-Port Gateway — ✅ via the admin port
Intercept Proxy (TLS-MITM) — ✅ --intercept-port
Hot Reload — ✅ POST /admin/reload
Config Linting — ✅ rift-lint
Stub Verification — ✅ rift-verify
Terminal UI — ✅ rift-tui
In-Process Embedding — ✅ Rust API + C ABI
Official Typed SDKs — ✅ Java, Scala, Node, Go

Feature Documentation

Documented elsewhere:

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