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How to log Django warnings and errors to log file in Production?


What I want to achieve is that warning and errors that happen in production (i.e. DEBUG=False) are logged into to a rotating log file.

I tried this

    LOGGING = {
        'version': 1,
        'disable_existing_loggers': True,
        'handlers': {
            'file': {
                'level': 'WARNING',
                'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
                'filename': 'staging.log',
            },
        },
        'loggers': {
            '': {
                'handlers': ['file'],
                'level': 'WARNING',
                'propagate': True,
            },
            'django': {
                'handlers': ['file'],
                'level': 'WARNING',
                'propagate': True,
            },
            'django.request': {
                'handlers': ['file'],
                'level': 'WARNING',
                'propagate': True,
            },
        },
    }

However, the above logs everything, not just messages of log level WARNING and above.


Solution

  • You can follow the django logger here.

    In your views.py:

    import logging
    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
    

    then you can record using logger.error() or logger.warning() or logger.info(). It will create a logger file in your main project directory and it will list out all the logging details.

    See this:

    LOGGING = {
        'version': 1,
        'disable_existing_loggers': False,
        'formatters': {
            'verbose': {
                'format': '{levelname} {asctime} {module} {process:d} {thread:d} {message}',
                'style': '{',
            },
            'simple': {
                'format': '{levelname} {message}',
                'style': '{',
            },
        },
        'handlers': {
            'logfile': {
                'level': 'DEBUG',
                'class': 'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',
                'filename': "yourproject_name.log",
                'maxBytes': 100000,
                'backupCount': 2,
                'formatter': 'verbose',
            },
        },
        'loggers': {
            'django': {
                'handlers': ['logfile'],
                'level': 'INFO',
                'propagate': True,
            },
            'apps': {
                'handlers': ['logfile'],
                'level': 'DEBUG',
                'propagate': True,
            },
        },
    }