django / raven with async logging or timeout?

[Selene Scriven]

Hello, I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to get Raven not to block when its Sentry server is offline.  A timeout would probably work, but it doesn't seem to be implemented.  Or async logging would be better, but the django celery code seems to be brand new and I'm a little wary of pulling in a couple dozen new dependencies for a single feature.

Any hints on how to get a response to the django app user even when Sentry isn't responding?

How is this implemented at Disqus?  Are you using bleeding-edge Raven with Celery, or is there some other, more mature technique?


-- Selene

[David Cramer]

We are using Celery so it just pipes off jobs (and we have some middle layer in place of RabbitMQ that makes it more or less async).

I do plan to add a UDP server, but otherwise this is my recommendation.

One thing I should note, I haven't thoroughly (outside of mock) tested the Raven celery client. I might have fixed a couple of issues in master with it, so if you choose to use it I'd recommend installing master.

Will probably create a release sometime this week.
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