DRF Request logger

A spinoff of the drf-tracking to forward the logging to the standard output instead of saving it in the database

Installation

pip install drf-tracking-logger

Usage

To use a specific logger name, set an environment variable TRACKING LOGGER.

The package provides a mixin LoggingMixin which you can include to your class based views to log the requests.

Example,

from rest_framework.generics import GenericAPIView
from rest_framework.mixins import ListModelMixin
from drf_tracking_logger.mixins import LoggingMixin

class AnyRandomView(LoggingMixin, ListModelMixin, GenericAPIView):
    ...

Options

• logging_methods : This attribute can used to strip down the request methods which needs to be logged. It logs all the methods by default.
• should_log : This method can be used to customize the logic to determine the logging.
• handle_log : You can override this method to change the logging behavior. It sends the log to the configured logger by default.
• sensitive_fields : By default, any key name which has any of 'key', 'secret', 'password', 'signature' in its name, will get its value hidden. But you can extend this list by adding more using this attribute.

Logging Overview

You'll get these attributes for every request/response cycle to a view that uses the mixin:

Model field name	Description	Model field type
user	User if authenticated, None if not	Foreign Key
requested_at	Date-time that the request was made	DateTimeField
response_ms	Number of milliseconds spent in view code	PositiveIntegerField
path	Target URI of the request, e.g., "/api/"	CharField
view	Target VIEW of the request, e.g., "views.api.ApiView"	CharField
view_method	Target METHOD of the VIEW of the request, e.g., "get"	CharField
remote_addr	IP address where the request originated (X_FORWARDED_FOR if available, REMOTE_ADDR if not), e.g., "127.0.0.1"	GenericIPAddressField
host	Originating host of the request, e.g., "example.com"	URLField
method	HTTP method, e.g., "GET"	CharField
query_params	Dictionary of request query parameters, as text	TextField
data	Dictionary of POST data (JSON or form), as text	TextField
response	JSON response data. This will be skipped for GET requests	TextField
status_code	HTTP status code, e.g., 200 or 404	PositiveIntegerField