How to use sentry/raven in django views

django, logging, raven, sentry

Solution

Your 'raven' logger is not actually using the sentry handler, but only writing to 'console'. Had the same problem. The documentation for raven/sentry lacks a good writer.

change your raven logger to:

'raven': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'handlers': ['console', 'sentry'],
            'propagate': False,
         },

and make sure you use it as logger:

logger = logging.getLogger('raven')

Problem

I managed to install sentry successfully and I can see the sentry interface webservice at localhost and doing a ``` raven test http://jsifslkdjfklsdfjklsdjfklMYCODE ``` works, the tests shows up in the interface. The problem is I can't find any examples or documentation on what exactly should I put on my views and my settings. I know I have to add to my `INSTALLED_APPS` 'sentry', 'raven.contrib.django', And I also added ``` SENTRY_DNS = 'http://jsifslkdjfklsdfjklsdjfklMYCODE' ``` This next two lines appear in the docs but it doesnt say where do they go ``` from raven.contrib.django.models import client client.captureException() ``` I tried in `settings.py` but still I can't get my views to log anything. I also added this ``` LOGGING = { 'version': 1, 'disable_existing_loggers': True, 'root': { 'level': 'WARNING', 'handlers': ['sentry'], }, 'formatters': { 'verbose': { 'format': '%(levelname)s %(asctime)s %(module)s %(process)d %(thread)d %(message)s' }, }, 'handlers': { 'sentry': { 'level': 'ERROR', 'class': 'raven.contrib.django.handlers.SentryHandler', }, 'console': { 'level': 'DEBUG', 'class': 'logging.StreamHandler', 'formatter': 'verbose' } }, 'loggers': { 'django.db.backends': { 'level': 'ERROR', 'handlers': ['console'], 'propagate': False, }, 'raven': { 'level': 'DEBUG', 'handlers': ['console'], 'propagate': False, }, 'sentry.errors': { 'level': 'DEBUG', 'handlers': ['console'], 'propagate': False, }, }, } ``` And in my views I added this: ``` import logging logger = logging.getLogger() def home(request,template_name): logger.error('There was some crazy error lol', exc_info=True, extra={'request': request, }) return render_to_response(template_name,context, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) ``` I have no other code related to logging apart from what you see here, What am I missing?

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