Store Django Log messages in a database?

Question

Django (the python web framework) uses python\'s logging system to store logs.

Is there an easy way to store log messages in a database, and then allow admin users to lo

Answer 1

Apart from the obvious choice of Sentry, for the sake of exercise, there is a nice blog article titled "Creating custom log handler that logs to database models in django" in the "James Lin Blog", which briefly explains how to do this using a second database, with code samples.

The code is adapted from the standard Python RotatingFileHandler:

...The RotatingFileHandler allows you to specify which file to write to and rotate files, therefore my DBHandler should also allow you to specify which model to insert to and specify expiry in settings, and best of all, on a standalone app.

This could also be easily adapted for using a single db.