Logging activity on Django's admin - Django

Question

I need to track/log activity on the Django admin.

I know there are messages stored by admin somewhere, but I don't know how to access them in order to use them as a simple log.

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I'm trying to track the following:

• User performing the action

• Action committed

• Datetime of action

Thanks guys.

Answer 1

I had to do something similar and I used something like this:

from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry

logs = LogEntry.objects.all() #or you can filter, etc.
for l in logs:
    #perform action

You can see all of the attributes for LogEntry, but I think the ones you are looking for are l.user, l.action_time and l.obj_repr (the name of the obj) and l.action_flag ({ 1:'Add',2:'Change',3:'Delete'}). Hope that helps!

Answer 2

If you don't mind installing an extra dependency, I can recommend django-logentry-admin, worked like a charm for me.

Answer 3

Log is in django_admin_log table in database used by django.

Answer 4

Take a look at the LogEntry class which stores the log for the actions inside the admin.

You could use it like this to insert custom entries in the logs:

from settings import LOG_SIZE, LOG_THRESHOLD
from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry

if not LogEntry._meta.installed:
        raise ImproperlyConfigured("You'll need to put 'django.contrib.admin' in your INSTALLED_APPS setting before you can use the admin application.")

def log_action(user_id, content_type_id, object_id, object_repr, action_flag, change_message=''):
        # limit log size
        log_count = LogEntry.objects.count()

        if log_count > LOG_THRESHOLD:
                to_delete = LogEntry.objects.all()[LOG_SIZE:log_count]

                #FIXME (!?): to_delete.delete()
                for d in to_delete:
                        d.delete()

        LogEntry.objects.log_action(user_id, content_type_id, object_id, object_repr, action_flag, change_message)