Splunk Apps » Django Monitoring

h1. Configuring Splunk for Django

h2. Configuring Django

Django needs to be setup to log files in a particular way for Splunk to read in a way that they can be parsed. To do so, set a formatter to output the time and severity to the logs messages using a formatter of "%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s".

Below is a logging configuration that can be used with the app, add it to your settings file:

<pre>
<code class="python">
LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'formatters': {
'standard': {
'format': '%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s'
},
},
'filters': {
'require_debug_false': {
'()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
}
},
'handlers': {
'null': {
'level':'DEBUG',
'class':'django.utils.log.NullHandler',
},
'console':{
'level':'DEBUG',
'class':'logging.StreamHandler'
},
'default': {
'level':'DEBUG',
'class':'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',
'filename': '../var/log/app.log', # Make sure that this path exists, change as necessary
'maxBytes': 1024*1024*5, # 5 MB
'backupCount': 5,
'formatter':'standard',
}
},
'loggers': {
'django.db': {
'handlers': ['default'],
'level': 'DEBUG',
'propagate': True, # Set this to ERROR false on production hosts since the database logs are very verbose
'propagate': False,

},
'': {
'handlers': ['default'],
'level': 'DEBUG',
'propagate': True,
},
'django.request': {
'handlers': ['default'],
'level': 'DEBUG', # Set this to ERROR on production hosts if you want to avoid lots of warnings for 404 file-not-found notices 'ERROR',
'propagate': False, True,
},
}
}
</code>
</pre>

h2. Configuring Splunk

Setup Splunk to monitor the logs files from your Django installation. Make sure to set the sourcetype to "django". See "docs.splunk.com":http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/MonitorFilesandDirectories for details on how to monitor files with Splunk.