django-context

django-context is an BSD licensed library written in Python. It could be helpful for you if you wanna set some custom context in your django app. The one of the examples is add an extra info into your logging records. Also, you can use a request object in any place of an application cause this library provides a capability to reach it out at any time during a request.

Quick start

1 install the library:

pip install django-context

2 Add django-context to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        django_context,
    ]

3 Add proxy middleware to your MIDDLEWARE setting like this:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django_context.middlewares.ProxyMiddleware',
    ...
]

It's important to place this ProxyMiddleware at the first place in a MIDDLEWARE to allow to calculate duration of response more precisely.

4 If you just want to add info about request duration and request id to your log records then you can use GlobalWSGIMiddleware in your wsgi.py like this:

application = GlobalWSGIMiddleware(get_wsgi_application())

5 Use this example of logging setting to set up your loggers correctly

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format': ('[django] %(levelname)s %(asctime)s'
                       ' %(name)s/%(module)s'
                       ' %(process)d/%(thread)d'
                       ' request_id: %(request_id)s'
                       ' user_id: %(user_id)s'
                       ' duration: %(response_duration)s'
                       '  %(message)s')
        },
    },
    'filters': {
        'context_filter': {
            '()': 'django_context.logging.ContextFilter'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'level': 'INFO',
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
            'formatter': 'verbose',
            'filters': ['context_filter']
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django_context': {
            'level': 'INFO',
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'propagate': True,
        },
        'django': {
            'level': 'INFO',
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'propagate': True,
        },
    }
}

Log records example