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📖 Full documentation: https://barttc.github.io/django-eventlog/

Compatibility Matrix:

Py/Dj	3.9	3.10	3.11	3.12	3.13
4.2 (LTS)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
5.0	—	✓	✓	✓	✓
5.1	—	✓	✓	✓	✓

django-eventlog

django-eventlog is a very simple event logger you can use to track certain actions in your code. Events are stored in a Django model and can be viewed in the Django Admin.

Usage Example:

from eventlog import EventGroup

e = EventGroup()                       # Start a new Event Group
e.info('About to send 1000 mails.',    # Trigger an Event
       initiator='Mailer Daemon')
try:
    # ... sending 1000 mails
    e.info('All emails sent!',         # Trigger an Event in the same group,
           initiator='Mailer Daemon')  # so they are combined in the admin.
except Exception:
    e.error('There was an error sending the emails.',
            initiator='Mailer Daemon')

You can reuse an event group by specifying a group name and attach optional data. Data must be JSON serializable.

from eventlog import EventGroup

def purchase():
    e = EventGroup(group_id=f"Order {self.order.pk}")
    e.info("Sent order to Shopify", data={"items": [1, 2, 3]})

def subscribe_newsletter():
    e = EventGroup(group_id=f"Order {self.order.pk}")
    e.info("User subscribed to newsletter on checkout", data={"email": "user@example.com"})

Events can be grouped in a "Event Group" and when hovering over one item in the admin, all events of the same group are highlighted:

The details view of an event will list all other events of this group so you can track the progress:

While looking similar, it's not intended to be a replacement for your regular Python logging facility, rather an addition to it.

django-eventlog stores it's data in a regular database model, so each log entry will trigger a SQL Insert. Therefore you should be careful using it in high performance and/or high volume environments.