Retrieve Request Log

Retrieves detailed information about a specific request log by its ID, including full request/response data and exception details.

HTTP Request

GET/api/metrics/request_logs/:id

Authorization

Authorization

• Required: Yes
• Permission: Staff with RequestLogPermission or Admin
• Permission Code: 3601
• Authentication: Token authentication

Path Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
id	Integer	Yes	Unique ID of the request log

Example Requests

🐍 Python

1import requests
2
3# Get detailed request log information
4response = requests.get('http://www.example.com/api/metrics/request_logs/12345', headers={
5  'Authorization': 'Token <your_api_key>'
6})
7print(response.json())
8
9# Example response handling
10if response.status_code == 200:
11  log_data = response.json()
12  print(f"Request to {log_data['endpoint']} took {log_data['duration']} seconds")
13  if log_data['exception_type']:
14      print(f"Exception occurred: {log_data['exception_type']}")

🌐 Curl

1# Get detailed request log
2curl "http://www.example.com/api/metrics/request_logs/12345" \
3-H "Authorization: Token <your_api_key>"
4
5# Get request log with pretty formatting
6curl "http://www.example.com/api/metrics/request_logs/12345" \
7-H "Authorization: Token <your_api_key>" \
8-H "Accept: application/json" | jq '.'

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	Integer	Unique ID of the request log
user	Object	User information (id, username, full_name) or null for anonymous
ip	String	IP address of the request
device	String	Device name/model
device_type	String	Type of device (pc, mobile, tablet)
is_bot	Boolean	Whether the request was made by a bot
os	String	Operating system information
browser	String	Browser information
scheme	String	Request scheme (http, https)
endpoint	String	API endpoint that was called
method	String	HTTP method used
status_code	Integer	HTTP response status code
exception_type	String	Type of exception (if any occurred)
started_at	String (ISO 8601)	Timestamp when request started
finished_at	String (ISO 8601)	Timestamp when request finished
duration	Decimal	Request duration in seconds
created_at	String (ISO 8601)	Timestamp when log entry was created
updated_at	String (ISO 8601)	Timestamp when log entry was last updated
query_params	Object	JSON object containing request query parameters
body	Object	JSON object containing request body data
response	Object	JSON object containing response data
request_headers	Object	JSON object containing request headers
response_headers	Object	JSON object containing response headers
exception_message	String	Detailed exception message (if exception occurred)
exception_traceback	String	Full exception traceback (if exception occurred)

Example Response

{
    "id": 1,
    "user": null,
    "ip": "127.0.0.1",
    "device": "Other",
    "device_type": "pc",
    "is_bot": false,
    "os": "Windows",
    "browser": "Firefox",
    "scheme": "http",
    "endpoint": "/superadmin/",
    "method": "GET",
    "status_code": 302,
    "exception_type": null,
    "started_at": "2025-11-19T14:55:32.673075Z",
    "finished_at": "2025-11-19T14:55:32.789033Z",
    "duration": 0.115958,
    "created_at": "2025-11-19T14:55:32.789379Z",
    "updated_at": "2025-11-19T14:55:32.789382Z",
    "query_params": {},
    "body": null,
    "response": null,
    "request_headers": {
        "Host": "127.0.0.1:8000",
        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
        "Cookie": "csrftoken=EqfXUxesM4u9XZc0UiptOMBL1mTRb8DA; sessionid=yf1pql5k3vvl6udi00fz1y5hzdriaur9",
        "Priority": "u=0, i",
        "Connection": "keep-alive",
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0",
        "Content-Type": "text/plain",
        "Content-Length": "",
        "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "document",
        "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate",
        "Sec-Fetch-Site": "none",
        "Sec-Fetch-User": "?1",
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br, zstd",
        "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
        "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1"
    },
    "response_headers": {
        "Vary": "Accept-Language, Cookie",
        "Expires": "Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:55:32 GMT",
        "Location": "/superadmin/login/?next=/superadmin/",
        "Content-Type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
        "Cache-Control": "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, private",
        "Server-Timing": "TimerPanel_utime;dur=62.012000000000064;desc=\"User CPU time\", TimerPanel_stime;dur=29.42600000000001;desc=\"System CPU time\", TimerPanel_total;dur=91.43800000000007;desc=\"Total CPU time\", TimerPanel_total_time;dur=105.6888599996455;desc=\"Elapsed time\", SQLPanel_sql_time;dur=1.919169999382575;desc=\"SQL 2 queries\", CachePanel_total_time;dur=2.0399810000526486;desc=\"Cache 1 Calls\"",
        "Content-Length": "0",
        "Referrer-Policy": "same-origin",
        "X-Frame-Options": "DENY",
        "djdt-request-id": "3e89467baded4ad498cf46ee313585fb",
        "Content-Language": "en-us",
        "X-Content-Type-Options": "nosniff",
        "Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy": "same-origin"
    },
    "exception_message": null,
    "exception_traceback": null
}

Notes

• This endpoint provides comprehensive logging data for debugging and monitoring purposes
• The duration field is automatically calculated from started_at and finished_at timestamps
• Anonymous requests are stored with user: null and can be filtered using user=0 parameter
• All JSON fields (query_params, body, response, etc.) may contain null values if no data was captured
• Exception fields will be null for successful requests
• Request and response headers may contain sensitive information - ensure proper access controls are in place