django-log-to-telegram 2020.1.23

a simple logger that sends 500 exceptions to a Telegram bot of your choice.

This is a simple logger that sends 500 exceptions to a Telegram bot of your choice.

Quick start

Install django-log-to-telegram:

pip install -e django_log_to_telegram

1. register a bot on Telegram (with BotFather), start a chat with it and put the Api token in settings.py:

LOG_TO_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN = '12345678:replace-me-with-real-token'

Different errors will be fired if the BOT_TOKEN is not active or if there is no chat active with it.

2. add the ‘django_log_to_telegram’ to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_log_to_telegram',
    ...
]

3. add the django_log_to_telegram.log.AdminTelegramHandler to your app’s logging configuration, for example:

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'filters': {
        'require_debug_false': {
            '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'telegram_log': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
            'class': 'django_log_to_telegram.log.AdminTelegramHandler',
            'bot_token': LOG_TO_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN,
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['telegram_log'],
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'propagate': True,
        },
    },
}

if you want to test this logger in a debug environment, just remove the filters’: [‘require_debug_false’], line in the ‘handlers’ dictionary.

4. Run python manage.py migrate to create the django_log_to_telegram models.

#TODO creare un primo modello

If everything went well, you bot will then begin sending messages on 500 exceptions.

There is a very basic test app provided in the folder test_app. It is configured to send errors to telegram even with DEBUG active, so that it can be useful with just a

./manage.py runserver

It does not provide any database configuration, and most of Django basic settings are stripped out, so any use of it outside the very basic testing of the django_log_to_telegram mechanism is deprecated to say the least.