django-detective

Django app that tracks all user requests and saves following data to database:

• user
• request method
• response status code
• IP address
• URL path
• GET parameters
• POST data
• session
• language code
• timezone
• content type
• user agent
• response content (if internal server error occures)
• is_secure flag
• is_ajax flag
• is_debug flag
• created and modified timestamps

Tested on Django 1.4.5 and Django 1.8.3

Requirements

• Django

Installation

1. Install python library using pip: pip install django-detective
2. Add detective to INSTALLED_APPS in your Django settings file
3. Add detective.middleware.TrackingMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in your Django settings file
4. Include detective.urls in your urls.py with detective namespace
5. Sync your database

Settings

DETECTIVE_SAVE_RESPONSES

If True, response data will be saved in database. Default: False.

DETECTIVE_SAVE_ERROR_RESPONSES

If True, internal server error responses with exception (500) are stored in database. Default: True.

DETECTIVE_TRACK_AJAX_REQUESTS

If False, ajax requests won't be tracked. Default: True.

DETECTIVE_TRACK_ANONYMOUS_REQUESTS

If False, anonymous requests won't be tracked. Default: True.

Authors

Library is by Erik Telepovsky from Pragmatic Mates. See our other libraries.