Scout StatsD Django

The scout_statsd_django extension instruments Django applications served by Django with StatsD. This extension was forked from django_statsd is maintained by Scout for our hosted StatsD service but is compatible with any StatsD collector.

Original project documentation is on Read the Docs.

Reported Metrics

The following metrics are reported:

• Response code rates (2XX, 3XX, 4XX, 5XX, etc)
• Response time
• Request throughput

Django Installation

Add the package:

pip install git+git://github.com/scoutapp/scout_statsd_django.git

Next, update setttings.py and add the following middleware to the top of the list:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
  'django_statsd.middleware.StatsMiddleware', ) 
  + MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

Using with Scout

Just install the Scoutd agent on the host(s) serving the app to see the Django metrics in the Scout UI.

Scope

This extension is laser-focused on Django-related metrics. Other scout_statsd_X extensions instrument different areas of code and frameworks.

Questions? Feedback?

Create an issue or shoot an email to support@scoutapp.com

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch
3. Commit your changes
4. Push to the branch
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

BSD and MPL

Portions of this are from commonware:

https://github.com/jsocol/commonware/blob/master/LICENSE