logforge-django 0.1.3

Django audit logging package for LogForge

LogForge Django

Unified audit logging for Django: creates audit_logs rows on create, update, delete, restore, force_delete with diffs, actor, IP, and context.

Install

pip install logforge-django

Configure (settings.py)

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'logforge.audit',  # or 'logforge.audit.apps.AuditConfig'
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    # ...
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'logforge.audit.middleware.request_context.RequestContextMiddleware',
]

LOGFORGE = {
    'enabled': True,
    'events': ['create','update','delete','restore','force_delete'],
    'include': [],
    'exclude': ['updated_at'],
    'redact': ['password','token','secret'],
    'actor': {'resolver': None, 'default': None},
    'context': {'capture_ip': True, 'capture_user_agent': True},
    'payload_max_bytes': 65536,
    'suppress_exceptions': True,
    'writer': 'db',  # 'db' (default) or 'queue'
    'queue': {'queue': 'celery', 'delay': 0},
    'archive': {'enabled': False, 'path': None, 'format': 'json'},
    'performance': {'enabled': False, 'slow_threshold_ms': 100, 'sample_rate': 1.0},
}

Run:

python manage.py migrate

Use

from django.db import models
from logforge.audit.mixins.logs_activity import LogsActivity

class Post(LogsActivity, models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    content = models.TextField(blank=True)

Writers

• Database (default): 'writer': 'db' (sync)

• Queue (Celery): 'writer': 'queue'

  • Default queue name is 'audit-logs'. You can override via LOGFORGE['queue']['queue'].

  • settings.py:

    CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0'
    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://127.0.0.1:6379/1'
    

  • myproject/celery.py:

    import os
    from celery import Celery
    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE','myproject.settings')
    app = Celery('myproject')
    app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
    app.autodiscover_tasks()
    

  • myproject/init.py:

    from .celery import app as celery_app
    __all__ = ('celery_app',)
    

  • Run:

    python manage.py runserver
    celery -A myproject worker -P solo -l info
    

  • Example writer configuration (overrides shown):

    LOGFORGE.update({
        'writer': 'queue',
        'queue': {
            # default is 'audit-logs' if not set
            'queue': 'audit-logs',
            # seconds to delay (optional)
            'delay': 0,
        },
    })
    

Include/Exclude & Redaction

LOGFORGE.update({
    'include': [],
    'exclude': ['updated_at'],
    'redact': ['password','token'],
    'per_model': {
        'myapp.Post': {'include': ['title','content'], 'redact': ['content']},
        'myapp.CustomUser': {'exclude': ['last_login','date_joined'], 'redact': ['password','email']},
    }
})

• Diffs are filtered; changed respects filters.
• If update diff is empty after filtering, it’s skipped.
• Redaction supports dot-notation (e.g., new.metadata.user.profile.email).

Soft Deletes

• Set is_deleted=True or deleted_at → event “delete”
• Clear them → “restore”
• Hard row removal (on soft-deletable model) → “force_delete” Note: you implement the soft-delete behavior (manager/override); LogForge just logs it.

Batching

from logforge.audit.support.audit_batch import AuditBatch
with AuditBatch.run_context(context={'job':'seed'}) as batch_uuid:
    Post.objects.create(title='A', content='x')

Commands

• Prune:

python manage.py prune_audit_logs --days=30 --dry-run
python manage.py prune_audit_logs --days=30

• Archive:

python manage.py archive_audit_logs --days=90 --output="media/logforge/audit_90d.jsonl"

If LOGFORGE['archive']['path'] is unset, defaults to MEDIA_ROOT/logforge if available.

Dashboard

Add the LogForge dashboard routes to your project URLs to enable the UI and API endpoints:

# myproject/urls.py
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    # ...
    path('logforge/', include('logforge.audit.urls', namespace='logforge')),
]

Access control defaults to authenticated staff users. You can customize with LOGFORGE['dashboard']:

LOGFORGE.update({
    'dashboard': {
        # Dotted path to a callable that receives a user and returns True/False
        # Example: 'myproject.auth.can_view_logforge'
        'allow': None,  # None => default to user.is_authenticated and user.is_staff

        # When True, redirects unauthorized users to Django admin login instead of LOGIN_URL
        'use_admin_login': False,
    }
})

Performance (optional)

LOGFORGE['performance'] = {'enabled': True, 'slow_threshold_ms': 100, 'sample_rate': 1.0}

Admin (optional)

from django.contrib import admin
from logforge.audit.models.activity_log import ActivityLog

@admin.register(ActivityLog)
class ActivityLogAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('event_type','resource_type','resource_id','user_id','ip_address','batch_uuid','created_at')
    list_filter = ('event_type','resource_type','created_at')
    search_fields = ('resource_type','resource_id','user_id','ip_address','batch_uuid')
    date_hierarchy = 'created_at'
    readonly_fields = ('created_at','updated_at')

License

MIT