Django Logging Configuration Example
Ship logs from Django applications to Logit.io
Follow the steps below to send your observability data to Logit.io
Logs
To send logs to Logit.io via Django you will need the python-logstash-async (version 2.5.0
) Python plugin.
Install Integration
Installing the Python logging handler
Execute the following command using pip
(the official Python package installer) to install the logging handler. This sends Python logging
events to Logstash, which is part of your Logit.io log management stack:
pip install python-logstash-async
If you receive errors suggesting pip is an unknown command,
navigate to its installed location with your chosen terminal program and try again
(or add pip
to your environmental variables if using Windows).
Sending Logs
Add your imports to the top of your file (the file you wish to include logging on):
import logging
from logstash_async.handler import AsynchronousLogstashHandler
from logstash_async.handler import LogstashFormatter
Add this code somewhere inside the same file, for example:
def main():
# Create the logger and set it's logging level
logger = logging.getLogger("logstash")
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
# Create the handler
handler = AsynchronousLogstashHandler(
host='@logstash.host',
port='@logstash.sslPort:strip_quotes',
ssl_enable=True,
ssl_verify=False,
transport='logstash_async.transport.BeatsTransport',
database_path='')
# Here you can specify additional formatting on your log record/message
formatter = LogstashFormatter()
handler.setFormatter(formatter)
# Assign handler to the logger
logger.addHandler(handler)
# Send log records to Logstash
logger.error('django-logstash-async: django error message.')
logger.info('django-logstash-async: django info message.')
logger.warning('django-logstash-async: django warning message.')
logger.debug('django-logstash-async: django debug message.')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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