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

Answer 1

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)