I am wondering if it would be a good idea to save a copy of *404s* in database instead of sending the email out to the ADMIN.
The reason is, while I see a notification of some sort beneficial, with sites that items are added and deleted on a regular basis, all those 404 messages (emails) can be costly and annoying at times. Not knowing about your missing links is not ideal either. An App that keeps a copy of all the 404s and admin can indicate to receive a single notification per (day/week or # new 404s) would be great. *Sentry* is great for 5xx logs, but I am looking to have a built-in feature in Django for 404s. I often get a russian bot that tries lot of specific links, while another bot (spammer) tries different links so they can exploit the site. With current setup (email to ADMIN), I get 10-20 emails for a single bot scanning the site. I can't afford not notifying myself of the 404s either, but I don't want to see all those bogus 404s to generate emails. IGNORABLE_404_URLS is used now and it has its limits. Of course I can role out my own app for this, but I think it would be beneficial to the community if Django did this out of the box. Now, the $64 K question: is Django a good place for this? Appreciate your feedback. Val -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
