Logging to file or rsyslog

[mntbighker]

Using the sample stanza in the docs I'm getting no logs to /var/log/netbox.log. I'm thinking permissions but so far no clues. I touched the file and chowned it netbox, still nothing. Has anyone got this to work with rsyslog? Or should it already out of the box?

[candlerb]

I presume you mean the documentation here ?

Firstly, there's nothing to do with rsyslog. This is just django writing to files.

Secondly, you will probably find that if you browse to a random URL like http://your.net.box/asdfasdf then you'll get a log like this:

Not Found: /asdfasdf

Nothing is logged when you browse pages, but this is normal. Logger django.server is only invoked by the development server (i.e. manage.py runserver), and django.request only logs errors.

For more info, see the Django documentation examples and loggers, and also stackoverflow:

By default, this config sends messages from the django logger of level INFO or higher to the console. This is the same level as Django’s default logging config, except that the default config only displays log records when DEBUG=True. Django does not log many such INFO level messages.

django.request will log only 4xx and 5xx requests.

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I tested with the following config:

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'handlers': {
        'file': {
            'level': 'INFO',
            'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
            'filename': '/opt/netbox/log/netbox.log',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django': {
            'handlers': ['file'],
            'level': 'INFO',
        },
    },
}

and I pre-created the log directory:

mkdir /opt/netbox/log
chown netbox:netbox /opt/netbox/log

On restarting netbox, the log file was created automatically (zero bytes), but only errors are logged.

[mntbighker]

Firstly, there's nothing to do with rsyslog. This is just django writing to files.

The rsyslog question was in addition to the native logging question. Presumably that's a no.

[nahun]

This is what I use to send logs to syslog-ng

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {
        'ntb': {
            'format': 'NetBox: level=%(levelname)s,logger=%(name)s,msg=%(message)s'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'syslog': {
            'level': 'INFO',
            'class': 'logging.handlers.SysLogHandler',
            'address': '/dev/log',
            'facility': 'local7',
            'formatter': 'ntb'
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        '': {
            'handlers': ['syslog'],
            'level': 'INFO'
        }
    }
}

[mntbighker]

This is what I use to send logs to syslog-ng

Works like a charm, thanks my friend. For the record I use rsyslog, and it works fine for that too.