How to get username in django_requestlogging

[Shailesh Yadav]

I am using ‘django_requestlogging’ for the log file and I have followed django_requestlogging this link and configured it as per the steps given.

I am not getting the username in the log file instead of that I am getting “-”.

Please find the code details.

step1.Installed application

INSTALLED_APPS =

 [ ------- ------

  'django_requestlogging',

 ]

step2: Created Middleware

from django.utils.deprecation import MiddlewareMixin from django_requestlogging.middleware import LogSetupMiddleware as Original class LogSetupMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin, Original): pass

step3: used in settings.py

MIDDLEWARE = [ ‘django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware’, ‘user_visit.middleware.UserVisitMiddleware’, # ‘django_requestlogging.middleware.LogSetupMiddleware’, ‘apple.middleware1.LogSetupMiddleware’ ]

step4: Configuration

LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
# Version of logging
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'filters': {
# Add an unbound RequestFilter.
'request': {
'()': 'django_requestlogging.logging_filters.RequestFilter',
},
},
'formatters': {
'request_format': {
'format': '%(remote_addr)s "%(request_method)s '
'%(path_info)s %(server_protocol)s" %(http_user_agent)s '
'%(message)s %(asctime)s',
},

'simple': {
'format': '[%(asctime)s] - %(levelname)5s -:%(message)3s -" %(username)5s'
},

},
'handlers': {
'console': {
'level': 'INFO',
'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
'filters': ['request'],
'formatter': 'simple',
},

'file': {
'level': 'INFO',
'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
'filename': 'icici.log',
'formatter':'simple'
},
},
'loggers': {
'django': {
# Add your handlers that have the unbound request filter
'handlers': ['console','file'],
'level': 'DEBUG',
'propagate': True,
# Optionally, add the unbound request filter to your
# application.
'filters': ['request'],
},
},
}

In the O/p Log file, I am getting.

[2021-01-01 21:53:39,243] - INFO -:"GET /genesysall/ HTTP/1.1" 200 82259 -" -

Any help or hint on this how to get the username.

[Chetan Ganji]

Hey,

On that link it is mentioned as below.

If any of this information cannot be extracted from the current request (or there is no current request), a hyphen '-' is substituted as a placeholder.

Maybe you are trying with anonymous user? 😅

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[Chetan Ganji]

However, 

use sentry for logging on prod servers, it will make your life easier.

Its free to get started 😉

[Shailesh Yadav]

Hi RyuCoder,

Thanks Actually later I have found that this module is very old (2011) and it seems that the middleware no longer works with recent versions of Django.

I am trying to implement 1st Answer by passing an extra parameter but not sure Filter where I need to define it and also it is compulsory?.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10292082/django-logging-django-request-logger-and-extra-context

sentry => I think it is not open-source and need to take license to use in Prod env.