Plug your Django application logging directly into AWS CloudWatch by watchtower

django_logging_watchtower.py

import logging
from boto3.session import Session


AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'your aws key ID'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'your aws secret access key'
AWS_REGION_NAME = 'your region name. e.g, us-east-1'
AWS_LOG_GROUP = 'MyLogGroup', # your log group
AWS_LOG_STREAM = 'Mystream', # your stream
AWS_LOGGER_NAME = 'watchtower-logger' # your logger


# logger
boto3_session = Session(
  aws_access_key_id=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  aws_secret_access_key=AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
  region_name=AWS_REGION_NAME
)

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {
        'aws': {
            # you can add specific format for aws here
            # if you want to change format, you can read:
            #    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/533048/how-to-log-source-file-name-and-line-number-in-python/44401529
            'format': u"%(asctime)s [%(levelname)-8s] %(message)s [%(pathname)s:%(lineno)d]",
            'datefmt': "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'watchtower': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'watchtower.CloudWatchLogHandler',
                     'boto3_session': boto3_session,
                     'log_group': AWS_LOG_GROUP,
                     'stream_name': AWS_LOG_STREAM,
            'formatter': 'aws', # use custom format
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        AWS_LOGGER_NAME: {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'handlers': ['watchtower'],
            'propagate': False,
        },
        # add your other loggers here...
    },
}