APIToolkit Django SDK is a middleware that can be used to monitor HTTP requests. It is provides additional functionalities on top of the open telemetry instrumentation which creates a custom span for each request capturing details about the request including request, response bodies errors and outgoing requests.
Kindly run the command below to install the apitoolkit django sdks and necessary opentelemetry packages:
pip install monoscope-django opentelemetry-distro opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
# then install the bootstrap script
opentelemetry-bootstrap -a installSetting up open telemetry allows you to send traces, metrics and logs to the APIToolkit platform. To setup open telemetry, you need to configure the following environment variables:
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://otelcol.apitoolkit.io:4317"
export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME="my-service" # Specifies the name of the service.
export OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES="at-project-key={ENTER_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE}" # Adds your API KEY to the resource.
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL="grpc" # Specifies the protocol to use for the OpenTelemetry exporter.
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="{YOUR_DJANGO_SERVER_NAME}.settings" # Specifies the Django settings module to use.Then run the command below to start your server with opentelemetry instrumented:
opentelemetry-instrument python3 manage.py runserver --noreloadAfter setting up open telemetry, you can now configure the apitoolkit django middleware.
By adding the following Monoscope variables to your Django settings (settings.py) file:
from pathlib import Path
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
load_dotenv()
# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
MONOSCOPE_SERVICE_NAME= "my-service"
MONOSCOPE_CAPTURE_REQUEST_BODY = True
MONOSCOPE_CAPTURE_RESPONSE_BODY = True
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.sessions',
]
...Then add the monoscope_django.MonoscopeMiddleware middleware into the settings.py middleware list, like so:
MIDDLEWARE = [
'monoscope_django.MonoscopeMiddleware', # Initialize Monoscope
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
...,
]Note
The {ENTER_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE} demo string should be replaced with the API key generated from the Monoscope dashboard.
The {YOUR_DJANGO_SERVER_NAME} demo string should be replaced with the name of your Django server.
Important
To learn more configuration options (redacting fields, error reporting, outgoing requests, etc.), please read this SDK documentation.
To contribute to the development of this SDK or request help from the community and our team, kindly do any of the following:
- Read our Contributors Guide.
- Join our community Discord Server.
- Create a new issue in this repository.
This repository is published under the MIT license.
