Django LOGGING not printing to console and file - django

Question

I have encountered a strange behavior of Django Loggers.
I am developing a front end application using Django. During the login service, I make some requests to certain components and use log.warning() calls to see the flow of the requests.
The logs worked perfectly, until I decided to add a LOGGING configuration to print the output of the logs in a file, as I want to deploy the application via Docker and I want to periodically check the log files.
When I added the following Django configuration concerning logging:
LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': True,
'formatters': {
'detailed': {
'class': 'logging.Formatter',
'format': "[%(asctime)s] - [%(name)s:%(lineno)s] - [%(levelname)s] %(message)s",
}
},
'handlers': {
'console': {
'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
'level': 'INFO',
'formatter': 'detailed',
},
'file': {
'class': 'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',
'filename': "{}/am.log".format(BASE_DIR),
'mode': 'w',
'formatter': 'detailed',
'level': 'INFO',
'maxBytes': 2024 * 2024,
'backupCount': 5,
},
},
'loggers': {
'am': {
'level': 'INFO',
'handlers': ['console', 'file']
},
}
}
The logging stops working. The file specified in the logging configuration, am.log, is indeed created but nothing gets printed to this file. Even the console logging does not take place.
I have taken this logging configuration from one of my Django projects for the backend of this application, and there it works perfectly. I really don't understand what I am doing wrong. Could you please help me or guide me in the right direction. I would be very grateful.
I wish you all a good day!

Answer 1

By using the key "am" in your 'loggers' configuration, you're defining one logger with name "am":
'loggers': {
'am': { # <-- name of the logger
'level': 'INFO',
'handlers': ['console', 'file']
},
}
So to use that logger, you have to get it by that name:
logger = logging.getLogger("am")
logger.warning("This is a warning")
If you name your loggers by the name of the module in which you're running, which is recommended practice, then you need to define each module logger:
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) # <-- this logger will be named after the module, e.g. your app name.
Then in your logging configuration you can specify logging behavior per module (per app):
'loggers': {
'my_app': { # <-- logging for my app
'level': 'INFO',
'handlers': ['console', 'file']
},
'django': { # <-- logging for Django module
'level': 'WARNING',
'handlers': ['console', 'file']
},
}
Or if you just want to log everything the same, use the root ('') logger, which doesn't have a name, just empty string:
'loggers': {
'': { # <-- root logger
'level': 'INFO',
'handlers': ['console', 'file']
},
}