21st May 2018 - Link Blog
New in Django 2.0: Database instrumentation. I missed this previously. Django 2.0 shipped with one of my most-wanted features: the ability to easily instrument database calls (for logging and metrics) without having to monkey-patch or run an entirely new database backend. Can’t wait to try this out.
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