Django: Setup An Efficient Logging System For A Website In Production

Alright so the development phase is over and now my website is live in prod. However, I have not set up the logging. My website is located in /var/www/html dir. Ideally I would lik

Solution 1:

1. No its not standard. Add the following statements to settings.py and modify the log file path to your needs:

    LOGGING = {
        'version': 1,
        'disable_existing_loggers': False,
        'handlers': {
            'file': {
                'level': 'DEBUG',
                'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
                'filename': '/path/to/django/debug.log',
            },
        },
        'loggers': {
            'django': {
                'handlers': ['file'],
                'level': 'DEBUG',
                'propagate': True,
            },
        },
    }
   

2. Refer this for setting up suitable permissions for log files: Permission Denied when writing log file

3. You will have to use logrotate otherwise make use of kafka server to maintain logs.