simple error log message in django

Question

I\'ve got error emails setup via Django\'s logging mechanism in 1.3. It sends me a nice email when an error happens. However, when I log a simple error message it\'s being f

Answer 1

The Django Logging docs state:

Of course, it isn't enough to just put logging calls into your code. You also need to configure the loggers, handlers, filters and formatters to ensure that logging output is output in a useful way.

You need to tweak your settings in your logging.config() dictionary. That allows you to set out exactly what information you want and how to format.

Cutting a small bit from the docs:

'formatters': {
    'verbose': {
        'format': '%(levelname)s %(asctime)s %(module)s %(process)d %(thread)d %(message)s'
    },

Gives you a bit of an idea how you can influence the output, and the logging.config docs for python will fill out the available options.