Django logging requests

Question

I'm using django 1.11 in aws elastic beanstalk and I've been trying to get my app to log with no luck . . .

I have these in my settings.py

LOGGING_CONFIG = None
LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'handlers': {
        'file': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
            'filename': '/opt/python/current/app/staging.log',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        '': {
            'handlers': ['file'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'propagate': True,
        },
        'django': {
            'handlers': ['file'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'propagate': True,
        },
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['file'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'propagate': True,
        },
    },
}
import logging.config
logging.config.dictConfig(LOGGING)

then I try to call one of my API and expecting something would show up in the log but it didn't. I django.request logger supposed to automatically log all incoming request or do I have to create a middleware that does logger.debug('something')?

logging in django is a lot more complicated than I thought :(

Answer 1

Django logger extensions work differently in development than in production (settings.DEBUG=True|False).

What you expect to see - http request logs - are written by django.server logger,
which is active only in development server (runserver command).

I see that in your configuration you use django.request logger. This logger name is very confusing - because as its name suggest - users will expect it to log all http requests - but it won't.

django.request will log only 4xx and 5xx requests.

I've made a screencast which explain this issue in detail.

Django documentation about loggers.