django-struct-log

A simple Django app for distributed structured logging.

Quickstart

Install Postgresql (Debian-like systems):

$ sudo apt install postgresql                 \
                   postgresql-9.4             \
                   postgresql-client-9.4      \
                   postgresql-client-common   \
                   postgresql-common          \
                   postgresql-contrib-9.4     \
                   postgresql-server-dev-9.4  \
                   postgresql-server-dev-all

Pop into the Postgresql user:

$ sudo su - postgres

and create a database for the app:

$ createdb djangostructlog
$ createuser structlog -s -P  # just for demo, set password to structlog

Now turn on the hstore extension:

$ psql djangostructlog

# CREATE EXTENSION hstore;
# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE djangostructlog TO structlog;
# \q

Clone the repo and run the migrations:

git clone https://github.com/carlohamalainen/django-struct-log.git
cd django-struct-log
python manage.py migrate

Create the admin user and an auth token:

python manage.py shell

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token

>>> User.objects.create_superuser(u'admin', u'admin@example.com', u'admin')

>>> for user in User.objects.all():
>>>     t = Token.objects.get_or_create(user=user)
>>>     print user, t

Make note of the auth token, e.g.:

admin (<Token: 5a610d074e24692c9084e6c845da39acc0ee0002>, True)

Run the server:

python manage.py runserver

Test a post to the server:

curl                                                                    \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json"                                 \
    -H "Authorization: Token 5a610d074e24692c9084e6c845da39acc0ee0002"  \
    -X POST                                                             \
    -d '{"name": "rdiff-backup", "host": "my-server-1", "description": "blah", "user": "carlo", "description": "daily rdiff-backup", "attributes": {"time_s": "1230"} }' \
    http://localhost:8000/logitems/

The response should be something like:

{"name":"rdiff-backup",
 "host":"my-server-1",
 "user":"carlo",
 "description":"daily rdiff-backup",
 "attributes":{"time_s":"1230"},
 "created_at":"2016-04-10T14:47:31.393234Z",
 "updated_at":"2016-04-10T14:47:31.393259Z"}