dshunfen / django-cloudwatch

Django Cloudwatch library to push metrics to AWS

Introduction

django_cloudwatch is a middleware that uses python-cloudwatch to log query and view durations to AWS cloudwatch.

• Documentation

  • http://django-stats.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

• Source

  • https://github.com/dshunfen/django-cloudwatch

• Bug reports

  • https://github.com/dshunfenthal/django-cloudwatch/issues

• Package homepage

  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-cloudwatch

• Python Cloudwatch

  • https://github.com/WoLpH/python-cloudwatch

• Graphite

  • http://graphite.wikidot.com

• Cloudwatch

  • code: https://github.com/etsy/cloudwatch
  • blog post: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/

Install

To install simply execute python setup.py install. If you want to run the tests first, run python setup.py test

Usage

To install, add the following to your settings.py:

1. django_cloudwatch to the INSTALLED_APPS setting.

2. django_cloudwatch.middleware.CloudwatchMiddleware to the top of your

   MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

3. django_cloudwatch.middleware.CloudwatchMiddlewareTimer to the bottom of your

   MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

Advanced Usage

>>> def some_view(request):
...     with request.timings('something_to_time'):
...         # do something here
...         pass
>>>
>>> def some_view(request):
...     request.timings.start('something_to_time')
...     # do something here
...     request.timings.stop('something_to_time')