Silk

• Quick Start
  • Other Installation Options
• Profiling
  • Decorator
  • Context Manager
  • Dynamic Profiling
• Configuration
  • Authentication/Authorisation
  • Request/Response bodies
  • Meta-Profiling
• Troubleshooting
  • Unicode
  • Middleware

Silk is a live profiling and inspection tool for the Django framework. Silk intercepts and stores HTTP requests and database queries before presenting them in a user interface for further inspection:

A live demo is available here.

Features

• Inspect HTTP requests and responses
  • Query parameters
  • Headers
  • Bodies
  • Execution Time
  • Database Queries
    • Number
    • Time taken
• SQL query inspection
• Profiling of arbritary code blocks via a Python context manager and decorator
  • Execution Time
  • Database Queries
  • Can also be injected dynamically at runtime e.g. if read-only dependency.
• Authentication/Authorisation for production use

Requirements

• Django: 1.5, 1.6
• Python: 2.7, 3.3, 3.4