(A side-note, you actually can use Sentry for 404s as well with contrib middleware<http://raven.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config/django.html#logging>. It does the job, although for one project we re-implemented it to log 404s as DEBUG messages instead of INFO, just copied the class and changed a line.)
On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:21:17 PM UTC+7, Val Neekman wrote: > > 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.
