Django Queries Count

A small debug tool that counts the SQL queries Django runs and prints a summary to the console — including duplicate queries (the usual sign of an N+1 problem) and the slowest ones, similar to what django-debug-toolbar shows in the browser.

Unlike most similar tools, which only ship a middleware, this one also provides a decorator. That means you can profile not just views but also management commands, Celery tasks, or any plain function — which is exactly the use case it was built for.

Example output

The basic idea is to count duplicate queries, like django-debug-toolbar does, and output them. The number of duplicated queries and the color of the theme can be specified in the settings. It is also possible to output all requests at once (counted if they are duplicated).

Content

• Installation
• Usage
• Available settings
• Additional screenshots
• Contribute

Installation

It is enough to install the package and apply the decorator to the desired management command or view.

pip install django-query-counter

Please take note that the colored and reformatted SQL output depicted in the readme screenshots may not be achieved unless the specified additional packages are installed (which maybe already installed):

• colorize requires pygments

pip install Pygments

• reformat requires sqlparse

pip install sqlparse

Usage

The project can be used in two ways:

Import the decorator and apply it where you need to know the number of queries to the database.

• management command:

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
from query_counter.decorators import queries_counter

class Command(BaseCommand):

   @queries_counter
   def handle(self, *args, **options):
       pass

• function-based views

from query_counter.decorators import queries_counter


@queries_counter
def index(request):
    pass

• class-based views:

from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from query_counter.decorators import queries_counter


@method_decorator(queries_counter, name='dispatch')
class IndexView(View):
    pass

• specifying middleware in settings for all views at once.

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'query_counter.middleware.DjangoQueryCounterMiddleware',
]

Available settings

It is possible to override the default settings. To do this, you need to include the app to the INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'query_counter',
    ...
]

Default settings:

{
    'DQC_ENABLED': True,  # set to False to disable all output (e.g. in production)
    'DQC_SLOWEST_COUNT': 5,
    'DQC_DUPLICATED_COUNT': 10,  # max number of duplicate queries to print
    'DQC_TABULATE_FMT': 'pretty',
    'DQC_SLOW_THRESHOLD': 1,  # seconds
    'DQC_INDENT_SQL': True,
    'DQC_PYGMENTS_STYLE': 'tango',
    'DQC_PRINT_ALL_QUERIES': False,
    'DQC_COUNT_QTY_MAP': {
        5: 'green',
        10: 'white',
        20: 'yellow',
        30: 'red',
    },
}

Feel free to override any of them.

Tabulate tables formats you can find here. Pygments styles available here.

Additional screenshots

Contribute

Feel free to open an issue to report any bugs. Bug fixes and features are welcome!