How do I use Logging in the Django Debug Toolbar?

Question

I would like to output debug messages in my django app at different points in a view function. The docs for the django-debug-toolbar say it uses the build in python logging but

Answer 1

If you have an existing LOGGING config dict, and you don't want to mess it up by switching to 'incremental', you'll need to re-add the DjDT log as a handler, then add it to the root logger's list of handlers.

from debug_toolbar.panels.logging import collector # needed for handler constructor below
LOGGING = {
    # existing options, formatters, loggers, etc
    handlers = {
        # existing handlers
        'djdt_log': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'debug_toolbar.panels.logging.ThreadTrackingHandler',
            'collector': collector,
        },
    },
    'root': {
        'level': 'DEBUG',
        'handlers': ['djdt_log'],
    },
}

If there's a cleaner way to do this, I'd love to see it.