django-sysinfo 1.3.0

Features

• dump system informations

• check API to add custom checks

• simple echo

• retrieve library version

Quickstart

Install django-sysinfo:

pip install django-sysinfo

put it in your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS=[...
 'django_sysinfo'
]

add relevant entries in your url.conf:

urlpatterns = (
    ....
    url(r'', include(django_sysinfo.urls)),
)

or customize them:

from django_sysinfo.views import http_basic_login, sysinfo

urlpatterns = (
    url('sys/info/$', http_basic_login(sysinfo), name='sys-info'),
    url('sys/version/(?P<name>.*)/$', version, name='sys-version')
)

Known issues and limitations

There are some limitations in the metrics returned by sysinfo, anyway this package is not intended to be used as host/resources monitoring tool.

• Disk space returns device info, any soft limits are ignored

• Memory can be wrong in some virtual environments

1.3 (10 Feb 2018)

• add HTML info page

• Dropped support for old Django (<1.9) versions and Python 2.6

• Django 2.0 support has been added.

1.2 16 Aug 2017

• fixex python 3.6 compatibility

• new config ‘_ttl’ to set cache max_age attribute

1.1 14 Jul 2017

• Django 1.11 compatibility

• handle broken database connections

• add new mail server informations

• new ‘checks’ API

• BACKWARD INCONPATIBLE: new config format

1.0 (15 Mar 2017)

• fixes error in json serialization

• BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: by default all the sections are disabled

• allow both string and callable in extra section

• added new configuration parameters

• new management command

0.3 (27 Mar 2016)

• dropped support Django<1.6

• add settings.SYSINFO_USERS to manage access

• default Basic Authentication protected urls

• removed ‘sys’ prefix from default urlpatterns

• new ‘echo’ endpoint

0.2 (13 Feb 2016)

• add some infos

• output sorted to improve readibility

• add ability to filter sections (?s=os,python)

• add CACHES infos

• removed command line utility

0.1.1 (20 Jan 2016)

• improved coverage

• fixes typos in copyright

0.1.0 (15 Jan 2015)

• First release on PyPI.