Plug django-request-logging into your Django project and you will have intuitive and color coded request/response payload logging, for both web requests and API requests

$ pip install django-request-logging

Then add request_logging.middleware.LoggingMiddleware to your MIDDLEWARE.

For example:

MIDDLEWARE = (
    ...,
    'request_logging.middleware.LoggingMiddleware',
    ...,
)

And configure logging in your app:

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',  # change debug level as appropiate
            'propagate': False,
        },
    },
}

Most of times you don't have to care about these details. But in case you need to dig deep:

• All logs are configured using logger name "django.request".
• If HTTP status code is between 400 - 599, URIs are logged at ERROR level, otherwise they are logged at INFO level.
• If HTTP status code is between 400 - 599, data are logged at ERROR level, otherwise they are logged at DEBUG level.

A no_logging decorator is included for views with sensitive data.

You can customized some behaves of django-request-logging by following settings in Django settings.py.

By default, data will log in DEBUG level, you can change to other valid level (Ex. logging.INFO) if need.

If you want to log into log file instead of console, you may want to remove ANSI color. You can set REQUEST_LOGGING_ENABLE_COLORIZE=False to disable colorize.

This legacy setting will still available, but you should't use this setting anymore. You should use REQUEST_LOGGING_ENABLE_COLORIZE instead. We keep this settings for backward compatibility.

By default, max length of a request body and a response content is cut to 50000 characters.

Email me with any questions: [email protected].