Django system check for checking whether Silk is enabled

django_silk_check.py

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.checks import Info, register
from django.urls import reverse


@register()
def django_silk(app_configs, **kwargs):
    """
    Checks whether Django Silk is enabled in settings and shows a message if
    it is.

    This is useful because you might enable Silk sometimes and then forget to
    disable it, and it can have an impact on the performance of the development
    server.
    """

    errors = []

    if 'silk' in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:

        silk_url = reverse('silk:summary')

        errors.append(
            Info(
                f"Django Silk is enabled. Results can be seen in {silk_url}",
                hint=(
                    "To disable Django Silk, remove the 'silk' app from "
                    "`INSTALLED_APPS`. When you don't need Silk, it's better to "
                    "disable it to save resources."
                ),
                id='silk.I001',
            )
        )

        if getattr(settings, 'SILKY_PYTHON_PROFILER', False):

            profiling_url = reverse('silk:profiling')

            errors.append(
                Info(
                    f"Django Silk Python Profiler is enabled. Results can be seen in {profiling_url}",
                    hint=(
                        "To disable the profiler, set the `SILKY_PYTHON_PROFILER` "
                        "setting to `False`. When you don't need profiling, it's "
                        "better to disable it to save resources."
                    ),
                    id='silk.I002',
                )
            )

    return errors