django-detective 0.4.0

Django app that tracks all user requests.

Django app that tracks all user requests and saves following data to database:

• user

• request method

• response status code

• IP address

• URL path

• GET parameters

• POST data

• session

• language code

• timezone

• content type

• user agent

• response content (if internal server error occures)

• is_secure flag

• is_ajax flag

• is_debug flag

• created and modified timestamps

Tested on Django 1.4.5.

Requirements

• Django

Installation

1. Install python library using pip: pip install django-detective

2. Add detective to INSTALLED_APPS in your Django settings file

3. Add detective.middleware.TrackingMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in your Django settings file

4. Include detective.urls in your urls.py

5. Sync your database

Settings

DETECTIVE_SAVE_RESPONSES

If True, response data will be saved in database. Default: False.

DETECTIVE_SAVE_ERROR_RESPONSES

If True, internal server error responses with exception (500) are stored in database. Default: True.

DETECTIVE_TRACK_AJAX_REQUESTS

If False, ajax requests won’t be tracked. Default: True.

DETECTIVE_TRACK_ANONYMOUS_REQUESTS

If False, anonymous requests won’t be tracked. Default: True.

Authors

Library is by Erik Telepovsky from Pragmatic Mates. See our other libraries.