Over the years I've written several blog posts covering different parts of Django observability - Django Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, Django Development and Production Logging, Celery Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and Django Error Tracking with Sentry. Each post covers one piece: wiring up django-prometheus, configuring structlog, deploying the Celery exporter, setting up distributed tracing. The problem is that wiring all of it by hand across every project is repetitive and easy to get wrong.

django-o11y bundles those patterns into a single installable package. One DJANGO_O11Y settings dict gets you traces, structured logs, Prometheus metrics, and optional Pyroscope profiling - with all four signals correlated on trace_id.