Logging in Django on Heroku not appearing

Question

I have created an app on Heroku and I push my Django app to it.

I monitor the logs using heroku logs --tail to see them in real time.

Then, in my

Answer 1

I think if you drop a logger.error you would see something.

I had the same problem and it turns out heroku's settings tool breaks the pre-existing LOGGING setup. The logger you are using is not registered with django but is making its own way to the console using python's standard logging system.

Try doing:

django_heroku.settings(locals(), logging=False)

Or better yet, don't use it at all anymore since this package is no longer maintained anyway.