Django http monitor

Django http monitor is a Django app for record http request and response in debug.

Django http monitor is based on response header Request-UUID, anyone has any questions about the request, just send me Request-UUID in response header, we can see whole message what we what.

Quick start

Install

pip install django-http-monitor

Install apps

Add "http_monitor" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'http_monitor',
]

Include url

Include the http monitor URLconf in your project urls.py like this::

url(r'^http_monitor/', include('http_monitor.urls')),

Add middleware

Add the HttpMonitorMiddleware for monitor request like this::

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'http_monitor.middleware.HttpMonitorMiddleware',
    ...
)

Note HttpMonitorMiddleware should be in top of the middlewares, But GZipMiddleware will zip the content, so GZipMiddleware will be top.

Done

Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/http_monitor/requests

Settings

HTTP_MONITOR_REDIS_URL

A redis url for store debug message

HTTP_MONITOR_FORCE_URL_LIST

a list for which prefix match list will be force record.

HTTP_MONITOR_PREFIX_LIST

A list for which prefix start will be monitor, default is ['/']

HTTP_MONITOR_EXCLUDE_URL_PREFIX_LIST

A list for which prefix start will not be monitor, default is ['/http_monitor']

HTTP_MONITOR_EXPIRE_SECONDS

How long will redis expire the monitoring request, default is one week

HTTP_MONITOR_AUTH_PERMISSION

A tuple or list for auth permission, default is None. if value is NULL or not set up, http_monitor will allow any user( include Anonymous User). For safety reasons, please set up, example：

    HTTP_MONITOR_AUTH_PERMISSION = ('is_superuser', 'is_staff')

HTTP_MONITOR_DYNAMIC_FORCE_URL_STATUS

A boolean for dynamic prefix match list will be force record, default is False. Configure data is in redis， it is a set. The name of set is 'http_monitor_force_url'

    HTTP_MONITOR_DYNAMIC_FORCE_URL_STATUS = True

URLs

Current we have three urls provide

• ^requests/ monitoring request list
• ^requests/(?P<request_id>.*)/ monitoring request item
• ^requests/(?P<request_id>.*)/raw/ monitoring request item response content（for content can't decode to json）
• ^requests/(?P<request_id>.*)/retry/ retry request
• ^settings/ settings

Develop

rm dist/*
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
twine upload dist/*