django-structlog

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.

Additional Popular Integrations

Django REST framework

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.

Celery

Celery's task logging requires additional configurations, see documentation for details.

Logging comparison

Standard logging:

>>> import logging
>>> logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
>>> logger.info("An error occurred")

An error occurred

Well... ok

With django-structlog and flat_line:

>>> 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'

With django-structlog and json

>>> 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

Getting Started

These steps will show how to integrate the middleware to your awesome application.

Installation

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__)

Extending Request Log Metadata

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)

Standard Loggers

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(),
            ],
        },
    },
    ...
 }

Example outputs

Flat lines file (logs/flat_lines.log)

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'

Json file (logs/json.log)

{"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"}

Upgrade Guide

Upgrading to 7.0+

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.

Upgrading to 6.0+

Minimum requirements

• requires python 3.8+

Changes to do

Add django_structlog to installed app

INSTALLED_APP = [
    # ...
    "django_structlog",
    # ...
]

Make sure you use django_structlog.middlewares.RequestMiddleware

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
]

(If you use celery) Make sure you use DJANGO_STRUCTLOG_CELERY_ENABLED = True

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

Upgrading to 5.0+

Minimum requirements

• requires asgiref 3.6+

Upgrading to 4.0+

django-structlog drops support of django below 3.2.

Minimum requirements

• requires django 3.2+
• requires python 3.7+
• requires structlog 21.4.0+
• (optionally) requires celery 5.1+

Changes if you use celery

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.

Upgrading to 3.0+

django-structlog now use structlog.contextvars.bind_contextvars instead of threadlocal.

Minimum requirements

• requires python 3.7+
• requires structlog 21.4.0+

Changes you need to do

1. Update structlog settings

• add structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars as first processors
• 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(),
            ],
        },
    },
    ...
 }

2. Replace all logger.bind with structlog.contextvars.bind_contextvars

@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)

Upgrading to 2.0+

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.

Running the tests

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

Demo app

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.

Authors

• Jules Robichaud-Gagnon - Initial work - jrobichaud

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Acknowledgments

• 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.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details