django-pg-stat-statements 0.1.0

A PostgreSQL profiler for Django that uses pg_stat_statements extension

django_pg_stat_statements

A PostgreSQL query profiler for Django that uses pg_stat_statements extension.

Changelog

v0.1.0

• Forked from django-pg-trunk

Requirements

• Python >= 3.7
• PostgreSQL >= 9.2
• Django >= 2.2

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install django-pg-stat-statements

Then add django_pg_stat_statements to your INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_pg_stat_statements',
]

django-pg-stat-statements will automatically install pg_stat_statements extension for PostgreSQL if it doesn't exist, however pg_stat_statements should be added to shared_preload_libraries in the PostgreSQL config.

Usage

After installing the package, database queries can be examined under PostgreSQL Stat Statements > Query Statistics in Django admin.

Change view have more detailed statistics. All of the columns of pg_stat_statements can be found here.

A possible usecase of QueryStatistic model can be running a cron job that checks if there is a query that takes more time than a specific thershold, and send related alerts (emails, Slack notifications, etc.).

Contribution

As a first step, please open an issue about the feature/bug.

• Build and run tests with docker-compose:

  docker-compose build test_app && docker-compose run --rm test_app
  

• Tests can be run using pytest command. Tests for different environments will be run on CircleCI.

• Changes on Django Admin can be tested using python manage.py runserver 0:8000 in development Docker container and navigating to http://127.0.0.1/admin.