Django Unleashed

29.4.1 Logging with Papertrail

Heroku, by default, will store logs about our service, as shown in Example 29.47.

Example 29.47: Shell Code

$ heroku logs --tail

The feature comes with basic filtering, allowing us to see output from Heroku itself or just our app, as shown in Example 29.48.

Example 29.48: Shell Code

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$ heroku logs --tail --source heroku $ heroku logs --tail --source app

Heroku’s log feature is limited to 1,500 messages, and according to Heroku’s documentation, it is built more for routing messages and less for storage. We therefore add a service for storing our logs long term. There are three companies on Heroku’s platform: FlyData, Papertrail, and Logentries. I opt to use Papertrail, but the competing ...