Django Setup Default Logging

Question

I can\'t seem to figure out how to setup a \"default\" logger for my Django installation. I would like to use Django 1.3\'s new LOGGING setting in setting

Answer 1

Figured it out...

You set the 'catch all' logger by referencing it with the empty string: ''.

As an example, in the following setup I have the all log events getting saved to logs/mylog.log, with the exception of django.request log events which will be saved to logs/django_request.log. Because 'propagate' is set to False for my django.request logger, the log event will never reach the the 'catch all' logger.

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': True,
    'formatters': {
        'standard': {
            'format': '%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s'
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'default': {
            'level':'DEBUG',
            'class':'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',
            'filename': 'logs/mylog.log',
            'maxBytes': 1024*1024*5, # 5 MB
            'backupCount': 5,
            'formatter':'standard',
        },  
        'request_handler': {
            'level':'DEBUG',
            'class':'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',
            'filename': 'logs/django_request.log',
            'maxBytes': 1024*1024*5, # 5 MB
            'backupCount': 5,
            'formatter':'standard',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        '': {
            'handlers': ['default'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'propagate': True
        },
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['request_handler'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'propagate': False
        },
    }
}