count number of logins by specific user django?

Question

Is their any way of counting number of django logins? The last_login field of the auth_user gets updated with each login. Can we make use of that field to count number of logins

Answer 1

There's also a 'user_logged_in' signal that'll do the trick with out the need to check for last logins etc.

class UserLogin(models.Model):
    """Represent users' logins, one per record"""
    user = models.ForeignKey(user) 
    timestamp = models.DateTimeField()

from django.contrib.auth.signals import user_logged_in

def update_user_login(sender, user, **kwargs):
    user.userlogin_set.create(timestamp=timezone.now())
    user.save()

user_logged_in.connect(update_user_login)