django-aws-xray

N.B.: AWS have released a beta version of their official X-Ray Python SDK which supports Django, you might want to consider using that: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-x-ray-sdk-for-python-beta/

Leverage AWS X-Ray for your Django projects! This Django app instruments your code to send traces to the X-Ray daemon.

Installation

pip install django-aws-xray

Update your Django settings:

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    'django_aws_xray'
]

MIDDLEWARE.insert(0, 'django_aws_xray.middleware.XRayMiddleware')

# Enable various instrumentation monkeypatches
AWS_XRAY_PATCHES = [
    'django_aws_xray.patches.cache',
    'django_aws_xray.patches.redis',
    'django_aws_xray.patches.db',
    'django_aws_xray.patches.requests',
    'django_aws_xray.patches.templates',
]

Settings

Setting	Name	Default
AWS_XRAY_SAMPLING_RATE	Sampling rate	100
AWS_XRAY_EXCLUDED_PATHS	Exclude paths	[]
AWS_XRAY_HOST	IP of X-Ray Daemon	127.0.0.1
AWS_XRAY_PORT	Port of X-Ray Daemon	2000
AWS_XRAY_PATCHES	Patches	[]

Credits

The database and cache instrumention code was based on the code from django-statsd