Installation

Installation process is simple, just:

$ pip install aiomonitor-ng

Example

Monitor has context manager interface:

import aiomonitor

async def main():
    loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
    run_forever = loop.create_future()
    with aiomonitor.start_monitor(loop):
        await run_forever

try:
    asyncio.run(main())
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

Now from separate terminal it is possible to connect to the application:

$ telnet localhost 50101

or the included python client:

$ python -m aiomonitor.cli

Tutorial

Let’s create a simple aiohttp application, and see how aiomonitor can be integrated with it.

import asyncio

import aiomonitor
from aiohttp import web

# Simple handler that returns response after 100s
async def simple(request):
    loop = request.app.loop

    print('Start sleeping')
    await asyncio.sleep(100, loop=loop)
    return web.Response(text="Simple answer")

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
# create application and register route
app = web.Application(loop=loop)
app.router.add_get('/simple', simple)

# it is possible to pass a dictionary with local variables
# to the python console environment
host, port = "localhost", 8090
locals_ = {"port": port, "host": host}
# init monitor just before run_app
with aiomonitor.start_monitor(loop=loop, locals=locals_):
    # run application with built-in aiohttp run_app function
    web.run_app(app, port=port, host=host)

Let’s save this code in file simple_srv.py, so we can run it with the following command:

$ python simple_srv.py
======== Running on http://localhost:8090 ========
(Press CTRL+C to quit)

And now one can connect to a running application from a separate terminal, with the telnet command, and aiomonitor will immediately respond with prompt:

$ telnet localhost 50101
Asyncio Monitor: 1 tasks running
Type help for commands
monitor >>>

Now you can type commands, for instance, help:

monitor >>> help
Usage: help [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  To see the usage of each command, run them with "--help" option.

Commands:
  cancel                  Cancel an indicated task
  console                 Switch to async Python REPL
  exit (q,quit)           Leave the monitor client session
  help (?,h)              Show the list of commands
  ps (p)                  Show task table
  ps-terminated (pst,pt)  List recently terminated/cancelled tasks
  signal                  Send a Unix signal
  stacktrace (st,stack)   Print a stack trace from the event loop thread
  where (w)               Show stack frames and the task creation chain of a task
  where-terminated (wt)   Show stack frames and the termination/cancellation chain of a task

aiomonitor also supports async python console inside a running event loop so you can explore the state of your application:

monitor >>> console
Python 3.10.7 (main, Sep  9 2022, 12:31:20) [Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
---
This console is running in an asyncio event loop.
It allows you to wait for coroutines using the 'await' syntax.
Try: await asyncio.sleep(1, result=3)
---
>>> await asyncio.sleep(1, result=3)
3
>>>

To leave the console type exit() or press Ctrl+D:

>>> exit()

✓ The console session is closed.
monitor >>>

Extension

Requirements

• Python 3.8+ (3.10.7+ recommended)

• aioconsole

• Click

• prompt_toolkit

• uvloop (optional)

0.7.1 (2023-04-16)

• Support Python 3.11 properly by allowing the optional name and context kwargs passed to asyncio.create_task() in the hooked task factory function (#10)

• Update development dependencies

0.7.0 (2022-10-19)

• Selective persistent termination logs (#9)

• Implement cancellation chain tracker (#8)

• Trigger auto-completion only when Tab is pressed

• Support auto-completion of commands and arguments (#7)

• Add missing explicit dependency to Click

0.6.0 (2022-09-26)

• Promote console_locals as public attr

• Reimplement console command (#6)

• Migrate to Click-based command line interface (#5)

• Adopt prompt_toolkit and support concurrent clients (#4)

• Show the total number of tasks when executing ps (#3)

• Apply black, isort, mypy, flake8 and automate CI workflows using GitHub Actions

0.5.1 (2022-08-29)

• Fix the task creation location in the ‘ps’ command output

0.5.0 (2022-08-26)

• Made it compatible with Python 3.10

• Added the task creation stack chain display to the ‘where’ command by setting a custom task factory (#1)

• Changed the ‘ps’ command view to be more concise and display many tasks in a better way (#2)

0.4.5 (2019-11-03)

• Fixed endless loop on EOF (thanks @apatrushev)

0.4.4 (2019-03-23)

• Simplified python console start end #175

• Added python 3.7 compatibility #176

0.4.3 (2019-02-02)

• Reworked console server start/close logic #169

0.4.2 (2019-01-13)

• Fixed issue with type annotations from 0.4.1 release #164

0.4.1 (2019-01-10)

• Fixed Python 3.5 support #161 (thanks @bmerry)

0.4.0 (2019-01-04)

• Added support for custom commands #133 (thanks @yggdr)

• Fixed OptLocals being passed as the default value for “locals” #122 (thanks @agronholm)

• Added an API inspired by the standard library’s cmd module #135 (thanks @yggdr)

• Correctly report the port running aioconsole #124 (thanks @bmerry)

0.3.1 (2018-07-03)

• Added the stacktrace command #120 (thanks @agronholm)

0.3.0 (2017-09-08)

• Added _locals_ parameter for passing environment to python REPL

0.2.1 (2016-01-03)

• Fixed import in telnet cli in #12 (thanks @hellysmile)

0.2.0 (2016-01-01)

• Added basic documentation

• Most of methods of Monitor class are not not private api

0.1.0 (2016-12-14)

• Added missed LICENSE file

• Updated API, added start_monitor() function

0.0.3 (2016-12-11)

• Fixed README.rst

0.0.2 (2016-12-11)

• Tests more stable now

• Added simple tutorial to README.rst

0.0.1 (2016-12-10)

• Initial release.