django-sysinfo

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Simple django app to expose system infos like libraries version, database server.

Easy to extend to add custom checks.

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