Hey, take a look at django-sentry, https://github.com/dcramer/django-sentry

On Feb 11, 6:17 pm, "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]"
<cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> For the last two years, I've been meaning to write a reporting server which
> allows webapps to post their exception tracebacks, which are then viewable
> from a centralized location. After having Thunderbird corrupt my mailbox due
> to over 250 thousand debug emails, this project has now been given a bit
> more priority ;)
>
> The current prototype stores basic exception information (the file path,
> line number, exception type, exception value, originating webapp, node
> hostname etc) in the database, and the traceback details are then
> serialized, dumped into a file, and the path to that file stored against the
> row. A web interface then allows you to browse through these exceptions
> (currently via Django admin), and view them using the same prettified
> exception page which it shows for actual exceptions. This prettified page
> also shows the variables within each frame in the stack, which is very
> handy!
>
> From a developers point of view, this makes life extremely easy, because all
> your webapps report to a single place, you can do sphinx searches, alerts,
> custom reports etc, and it looks pretty lol.
>
> The entire thing is going to be open source, and will eventually be a
> one-click install with a set up page etc.
>
> Here are some of the features I am planning on adding, but if anyone has any
> suggestions as to what they would like to see in this, please feel free to
> mention them!
>
>    - Tracebacks can be sent to the server primarily via POST request, but
>    custom plugins will allow it to pull in via other means (such as mail
>    attachments)
>    - Alerts can be given different classifications (for example, you could
>    configure specific nodes, webapps, or exception types to alert you via
>    BulkSMS)
>    - Prettified traceback page should initially support Python/PHP, other
>    languages can be added as and when.
>    - Basic authentication / IP restrictions for the admin login
>    - Authentication support for when the tracebacks are POST'd to the server
>    - Tar source should pre-package a lightweight nginx/uwsgi/python
>    environment, so it is self sufficient (this will need to be security
>    maintained obviously).
>    - A nice, pretty, easy to use interface, because this just makes people
>    feel all nice and warm inside ^_^
>
> I don't want to go as far as to say that it should be used to collect
> error_log outputs, I think that would be going a bit too far, the main
> reason for having a system like this is simply due to the sheer amount of
> information usually contained within a traceback dump, and the Django
> prettifier makes it so much easier to debug with!
>
> Thoughts/criticisms welcome!
>
> Cal

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