django-structlog is a structured logging integration for Django project using structlog
Logging will then produce additional cohesive metadata on each logs that makes it easier to track events or incidents.
Django REST framework
is supported by default. But when using it with rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication
(or other DRF authentications) user_id
will be only be in request_finished
and request_failed
instead of each logs.
See #37 for details.
django-ninja
is supported by default 🥷.
Celery's task logging requires additional configurations, see documentation for details.
>>> import logging
>>> logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
>>> logger.info("An error occurred")
An error occurred
Well... ok
>>> import structlog
>>> logger = structlog.get_logger(__name__)
>>> logger.info("an_error_occurred", bar="Buz")
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:31.089925Z' level='info' event='an_error_occurred' logger='my_awesome_project.my_awesome_module' request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0' bar='Buz'
Then you can search with commands like:
$ cat logs/flat_line.log | grep request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4'
>>> import structlog
>>> logger = structlog.get_logger(__name__)
>>> logger.info("an_error_occurred", bar="Buz")
{"request_id": "3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "event": "an_error_occurred", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:31.089925Z", "logger": "my_awesome_project.my_awesome_module", "level": "info", "bar": "Buz"}
Then you can search with commands like:
$ cat logs/json.log | jq '.[] | select(.request_id="3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4")' -s
These steps will show how to integrate the middleware to your awesome application.
Install the library
pip install django-structlog
Add app
INSTALLED_APP = [
# ...
"django_structlog",
# ...
]
Add middleware
MIDDLEWARE = [
# ...
"django_structlog.middlewares.RequestMiddleware",
]
Add appropriate structlog configuration to your settings.py
import structlog
LOGGING = {
"version": 1,
"disable_existing_loggers": False,
"formatters": {
"json_formatter": {
"()": structlog.stdlib.ProcessorFormatter,
"processor": structlog.processors.JSONRenderer(),
},
"plain_console": {
"()": structlog.stdlib.ProcessorFormatter,
"processor": structlog.dev.ConsoleRenderer(),
},
"key_value": {
"()": structlog.stdlib.ProcessorFormatter,
"processor": structlog.processors.KeyValueRenderer(key_order=['timestamp', 'level', 'event', 'logger']),
},
},
"handlers": {
# Important notes regarding handlers.
#
# 1. Make sure you use handlers adapted for your project.
# These handlers configurations are only examples for this library.
# See python's logging.handlers: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.handlers.html
#
# 2. You might also want to use different logging configurations depending of the environment.
# Different files (local.py, tests.py, production.py, ci.py, etc.) or only conditions.
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/settings/#designating-the-settings
"console": {
"class": "logging.StreamHandler",
"formatter": "plain_console",
},
"json_file": {
"class": "logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler",
"filename": "logs/json.log",
"formatter": "json_formatter",
},
"flat_line_file": {
"class": "logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler",
"filename": "logs/flat_line.log",
"formatter": "key_value",
},
},
"loggers": {
"django_structlog": {
"handlers": ["console", "flat_line_file", "json_file"],
"level": "INFO",
},
# Make sure to replace the following logger's name for yours
"django_structlog_demo_project": {
"handlers": ["console", "flat_line_file", "json_file"],
"level": "INFO",
},
}
}
structlog.configure(
processors=[
structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars,
structlog.stdlib.filter_by_level,
structlog.processors.TimeStamper(fmt="iso"),
structlog.stdlib.add_logger_name,
structlog.stdlib.add_log_level,
structlog.stdlib.PositionalArgumentsFormatter(),
structlog.processors.StackInfoRenderer(),
structlog.processors.format_exc_info,
structlog.processors.UnicodeDecoder(),
structlog.stdlib.ProcessorFormatter.wrap_for_formatter,
],
logger_factory=structlog.stdlib.LoggerFactory(),
cache_logger_on_first_use=True,
)
Start logging with structlog
instead of logging
.
import structlog
logger = structlog.get_logger(__name__)
By default only a request_id
and the user_id
are bound from the request but pertinent log metadata may vary from a project to another.
If you need to add more metadata from the request you can implement a convenient signal receiver to bind them. You can also override existing bound metadata the same way.
from django.contrib.sites.shortcuts import get_current_site
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django_structlog import signals
import structlog
@receiver(signals.bind_extra_request_metadata)
def bind_domain(request, logger, **kwargs):
current_site = get_current_site(request)
structlog.contextvars.bind_contextvars(domain=current_site.domain)
It is also possible to log using standard python logger.
In your formatters, add the foreign_pre_chain
section, and then add structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars
:
LOGGING = {
"version": 1,
"disable_existing_loggers": False,
"formatters": {
"json_formatter": {
"()": structlog.stdlib.ProcessorFormatter,
"processor": structlog.processors.JSONRenderer(),
# Add this section:
"foreign_pre_chain": [
structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars, # <---- add this
# customize the rest as you need
structlog.processors.TimeStamper(fmt="iso"),
structlog.stdlib.add_logger_name,
structlog.stdlib.add_log_level,
structlog.stdlib.PositionalArgumentsFormatter(),
],
},
},
...
}
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:29.321453Z' level='info' event='request_started' logger='django_structlog.middlewares.request' request_id='c53dff1d-3fc5-4257-a78a-9a567c937561' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0' request=GET / user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36'
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:29.345207Z' level='info' event='request_finished' logger='django_structlog.middlewares.request' request_id='c53dff1d-3fc5-4257-a78a-9a567c937561' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0' code=200
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:31.086155Z' level='info' event='request_started' logger='django_structlog.middlewares.request' request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0' request=POST /success_task user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36'
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:31.089925Z' level='info' event='Enqueuing successful task' logger='django_structlog_demo_project.home.views' request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0'
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:31.147590Z' level='info' event='task_enqueued' logger='django_structlog.middlewares.celery' request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0' child_task_id='6b11fd80-3cdf-4de5-acc2-3fd4633aa654'
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:31.153081Z' level='info' event='This is a successful task' logger='django_structlog_demo_project.taskapp.celery' task_id='6b11fd80-3cdf-4de5-acc2-3fd4633aa654' request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0'
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:31.160043Z' level='info' event='request_finished' logger='django_structlog.middlewares.request' request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0' code=201
timestamp='2019-04-13T19:39:31.162372Z' level='info' event='task_succeed' logger='django_structlog.middlewares.celery' task_id='6b11fd80-3cdf-4de5-acc2-3fd4633aa654' request_id='3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4' user_id=1 ip='0.0.0.0' result='None'
{"request_id": "c53dff1d-3fc5-4257-a78a-9a567c937561", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "request": "GET /", "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36", "event": "request_started", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:29.321453Z", "logger": "django_structlog.middlewares.request", "level": "info"}
{"request_id": "c53dff1d-3fc5-4257-a78a-9a567c937561", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "code": 200, "event": "request_finished", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:29.345207Z", "logger": "django_structlog.middlewares.request", "level": "info"}
{"request_id": "3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "request": "POST /success_task", "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36", "event": "request_started", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:31.086155Z", "logger": "django_structlog.middlewares.request", "level": "info"}
{"request_id": "3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "event": "Enqueuing successful task", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:31.089925Z", "logger": "django_structlog_demo_project.home.views", "level": "info"}
{"request_id": "3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "child_task_id": "6b11fd80-3cdf-4de5-acc2-3fd4633aa654", "event": "task_enqueued", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:31.147590Z", "logger": "django_structlog.middlewares.celery", "level": "info"}
{"task_id": "6b11fd80-3cdf-4de5-acc2-3fd4633aa654", "request_id": "3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "event": "This is a successful task", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:31.153081Z", "logger": "django_structlog_demo_project.taskapp.celery", "level": "info"}
{"request_id": "3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "code": 201, "event": "request_finished", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:31.160043Z", "logger": "django_structlog.middlewares.request", "level": "info"}
{"task_id": "6b11fd80-3cdf-4de5-acc2-3fd4633aa654", "request_id": "3a8f801c-072b-4805-8f38-e1337f363ed4", "user_id": 1, "ip": "0.0.0.0", "result": "None", "event": "task_succeed", "timestamp": "2019-04-13T19:39:31.162372Z", "logger": "django_structlog.middlewares.celery", "level": "info"}
- requires python 3.9+
- django 4.2 and 5.0+ are supported
django-structlog
now uses python type hints and is being validated with mypy --strict
.
Now unhandled exceptions when using drf-standardized-errors will be intercepted and the exception logged properly.
If you also use structlog-sentry, the exception will now be propagated as expected.
Other libraries alike may be affected by this change.
This only affects you if you implemented a middleware inheriting from RequestMiddleware
and you overrided the process_exception
method.
Did you?
If so:
RequestMiddleware.process_exception
was renamed toRequestMiddleware._process_exception
, you should to the same in the middleware.
- A new keyword argument
log_kwargs
was added to the the optional signals: django_structlog.signals.bind_extra_request_metadata
;django_structlog.signals.bind_extra_request_finished_metadata
;django_structlog.signals.bind_extra_request_failed_metadata
.
It should not affect you if you have a **kwargs
in the signature of your receivers.
log_kwargs
is a dictionary containing the log metadata that will be added to their respective logs ("request_started"
, "request_finished"
, "request_failed"
).
If you use any of these signals, you may need to update your receiver to accept this new argument:
from django.contrib.sites.shortcuts import get_current_site
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django_structlog import signals
import structlog
@receiver(signals.bind_extra_request_metadata)
def my_receiver(request, logger, log_kwargs, **kwargs): # <- add `log_kwargs` if necessary
...
@receiver(signals.bind_extra_request_finished_metadata)
def my_receiver_finished(request, logger, response, log_kwargs, **kwargs): # <- add `log_kwargs` if necessary
...
@receiver(signals.bind_extra_request_failed_metadata)
def my_receiver_failed(request, logger, exception, log_kwargs, **kwargs): # <- add `log_kwargs` if necessary
...
The dependency django-ipware was upgraded to version 6. This library is used to retrieve the request's ip address.
Version 6 may have some breaking changes if you did customizations.
It should not affect most of the users but if you did some customizations, you might need to update your configurations.
- requires python 3.8+
INSTALLED_APP = [
# ...
"django_structlog",
# ...
]
If you used any of the experimental async or sync middlewares, you do not need to anymore.
Make sure you use django_structlog.middlewares.RequestMiddleware
instead of any of the other request middlewares commented below:
MIDDLEWARE += [
# "django_structlog.middlewares.request_middleware_router", # <- remove
# "django_structlog.middlewares.requests.SyncRequestMiddleware", # <- remove
# "django_structlog.middlewares.requests.AsyncRequestMiddleware", # <- remove
"django_structlog.middlewares.RequestMiddleware", # <- make sure you use this one
]
It is only applicable if you use celery integration.
django_structlog.middlewares.CeleryMiddleware
has been remove in favor of a django settings.
MIDDLEWARE += [
"django_structlog.middlewares.RequestMiddleware",
# "django_structlog.middlewares.CeleryMiddleware", # <- remove this
]
DJANGO_STRUCTLOG_CELERY_ENABLED = True # <-- add this
- requires asgiref 3.6+
django-structlog
drops support of django below 3.2.
- requires django 3.2+
- requires python 3.7+
- requires structlog 21.4.0+
- (optionally) requires celery 5.1+
You can now install django-structlog
explicitly with celery
extra in order to validate the compatibility with your version of celery
.
django-structlog[celery]==4.0.0
See Installing “Extras” for more information about this pip
feature.
django-structlog
now use structlog.contextvars.bind_contextvars instead of threadlocal
.
- requires python 3.7+
- requires structlog 21.4.0+
- add
structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars
as firstprocessors
- remove
context_class=structlog.threadlocal.wrap_dict(dict),
- (if you use standard loggers) add
structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars
in foreign_pre_chain - (if you use standard loggers) remove
django_structlog.processors.inject_context_dict,
structlog.configure(
processors=[
structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars, # <---- add this
structlog.stdlib.filter_by_level,
structlog.processors.TimeStamper(fmt="iso"),
structlog.stdlib.add_logger_name,
structlog.stdlib.add_log_level,
structlog.stdlib.PositionalArgumentsFormatter(),
structlog.processors.StackInfoRenderer(),
structlog.processors.format_exc_info,
structlog.processors.UnicodeDecoder(),
structlog.stdlib.ProcessorFormatter.wrap_for_formatter,
],
# context_class=structlog.threadlocal.wrap_dict(dict), # <---- remove this
logger_factory=structlog.stdlib.LoggerFactory(),
cache_logger_on_first_use=True,
)
# If you use standard logging
LOGGING = {
"version": 1,
"disable_existing_loggers": False,
"formatters": {
"json_formatter": {
"()": structlog.stdlib.ProcessorFormatter,
"processor": structlog.processors.JSONRenderer(),
"foreign_pre_chain": [
structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars, # <---- add this
# django_structlog.processors.inject_context_dict, # <---- remove this
structlog.processors.TimeStamper(fmt="iso"),
structlog.stdlib.add_logger_name,
structlog.stdlib.add_log_level,
structlog.stdlib.PositionalArgumentsFormatter(),
],
},
},
...
}
@receiver(bind_extra_request_metadata)
def bind_domain(request, logger, **kwargs):
current_site = get_current_site(request)
# logger.bind(domain=current_site.domain)
structlog.contextvars.bind_contextvars(domain=current_site.domain)
django-structlog
was originally developed using the debug configuration ExceptionPrettyPrinter which led to incorrect handling of exception.
- remove
structlog.processors.ExceptionPrettyPrinter(),
of your processors. - make sure you have
structlog.processors.format_exc_info,
in your processors if you want appropriate exception logging.
Note: For the moment redis is needed to run the tests. The easiest way is to start docker demo's redis.
docker compose up -d redis
pip install -r requirements.txt
env CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://0.0.0.0:6379 DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.test pytest test_app
env CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://0.0.0.0:6379 DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.test_demo_app pytest django_structlog_demo_project
docker compose stop redis
docker compose up --build
Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/
in your browser.
Navigate while looking into the log files and shell's output.
- Jules Robichaud-Gagnon - Initial work - jrobichaud
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
- Very huge thanks to my awesome 🦄 and generous employer TLM 🩵💜❤️🧡💚🐈⬛ for letting me maintain this project on my work hours because it believes in open source.
- Big thanks to @ferd for his bad opinions that inspired the author enough to spend time on this library.
- This issue helped the author to figure out how to integrate
structlog
in Django. - This stack overflow question was also helpful.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details