# Traffic capture

> Inspect protocol-aware requests and promote selected traffic into editable behavior.

- Canonical URL: https://dotmock.com/docs/features/traffic-capture
- Capability status: Available
- Last verified: 2026-07-24

## Prerequisites
- A DotMock workspace you can access
- The API ID in $API_ID and its published runtime URL in $MOCK_URL when the example calls the mock

## In this guide
- Capture requests sent to the mock
- Read the request as structured data
- Connect the winner to the rendered result
- Use protocol-aware inspection
- Promote a useful request carefully

## Verified boundaries
- Traffic promotion creates editable behavior from a user-selected capture; it does not make arbitrary captures live automatically.

Read the canonical guide for its complete examples and expected results: https://dotmock.com/docs/features/traffic-capture