Easy application logging/debugging with nginx, uwsgi, flask?
Solution 1
Set config['PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS']
to True
when running app in production and you want tracebacks to be logged into log files. (I haven't tried with SMTP handler, though..)
Solution 2
- The part where you create handlers, add to loggers etc. should be in the
if __name__ == '__main__'
clause, i.e. your main entry point. I assume that would berun.py
. - I'm not sure I can answer this - it depends on what you want. I'd advise looking at the logging tutorial to see the various options available.
- I don't believe you need to change anything at the
nginx
level.
Update: You might want to have an exception clause that covers uncaught exceptions, e.g.
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
app.run(debug=True)
except Exception:
app.logger.exception('Failed')
which should write the traceback of any exception which occurred in app.run()
to the log.
Solution 3
I know that this is a VERY old post, but I ran into the issue now, and it took me a bit to find the solution. Flask sends errors to the server. I was running Gunicorn with an upstart script on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and the place where I found the error logs was as follows:
/var/log/upstart/myapp.log
http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/deploy.html#upstart
Just in case some other poor soul ends up in this situation.
Mittenchops
Updated on June 15, 2022Comments
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Mittenchops almost 2 years
I'm not looking to turn on the dangerous debugging console, but my application is getting a 500 error and doesn't seem to be writing any output for me to investigate more deeply.
I saw this exchange on the mailing list, which led me to this page on logging errors.
However, I still find this very confusing and have a couple of questions:
(1) In which file should the stuff below go?
ADMINS = ['[email protected]'] if not app.debug: import logging from logging.handlers import SMTPHandler mail_handler = SMTPHandler('127.0.0.1', '[email protected]', ADMINS, 'YourApplication Failed') mail_handler.setLevel(logging.ERROR) app.logger.addHandler(mail_handler)
...assuming the "getting bigger" file pattern for larger applications?
__init__.py
?config.py
?run.py
?(2) I am overwhelmed by options there, and can't tell which I should use. Which loggers should I turn on, with what settings, to replicate the local python server debug I get to stdout when I run run.py? I find that default, local output stream very useful, more so than the interactive debugger in the page. Does anyone have a pattern they could share on setting up something replicating this with an nginx deployment, outputting to a log?
(3) Is there anything I need to change, not at the flask level, but in nginx, say in my
/etc/nginx/sites-available/appname
file, to enable logging?UPDATE
Specifically, I'm looking for information like I get when python runs locally as to why, say, a package isn't working, or where my syntax error might be, or what variable doesn't exist:
$ python run.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "run.py", line 1, in <module> from myappname import app File "/home/me/myappname/myappname/__init__.py", line 27, in <module> file_handler.setLevel(logging.debug) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 710, in setLevel self.level = _checkLevel(level) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 190, in _checkLevel raise TypeError("Level not an integer or a valid string: %r" % level)
When I run flask on a server, I never see this. I just get a uWSGI error in the browser, and have no idea which code was problematic. I would just like something like the above to be written to a file.
I notice also that setting the following logging didn't really write much to file, even when I turn the log way up to the DEBUG level:
from logging import FileHandler file_handler = FileHandler('mylog.log') file_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) app.logger.addHandler(file_handler)
mylog.log
is blank, even when my application errors out.I'll also add that I've tried to set debug = True in the following ways, in
__init__.py
:app = Flask(__name__) app.debug = True app.config['DEBUG'] = True from werkzeug.debug import DebuggedApplication app.wsgi_app = DebuggedApplication(app.wsgi_app, True) app.config.from_object('config') app.config.update(DEBUG=True) app.config['DEBUG'] = True if __name__ == '__main__': app.run(debug=True)
While in my config.py file, I have...
debug = True Debug = True DEBUG = True
Yet, no debugging happens, and without logging or debugging, this is rather hard to track down. Errors simply terminate the application with the un-useful browser message:
uWSGI Error Python application not found