Clean up logging to have sensible defaults for production.

course_discovery/settings/production.py

 from os import environ
+import platform
+import sys
 import yaml
+from logging.handlers import SysLogHandler
 
 from course_discovery.settings.base import *
 from course_discovery.settings.utils import get_env_setting
@@ -10,7 +13,25 @@ TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
 
 ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
 
-LOGGING = environ.get('LOGGING', LOGGING)
+LOGGING['handlers']['local'] = {
+    'level': 'INFO',
+    'class': 'logging.handlers.SysLogHandler',
+    # Use a different address for Mac OS X
+    'address': '/var/run/syslog' if sys.platform == "darwin" else '/dev/log',
+    'formatter': 'syslog_format',
+    'facility': SysLogHandler.LOG_LOCAL0,
+}
+
+LOGGING['formatters']['syslog_format'] = {
+    format: (
+        "[service_variant=course_discovery]"
+        "[%(name)s][env:no_env] %(levelname)s "
+        "[{hostname}  %(process)d] [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] "
+        "- %(message)s"
+    ).format(
+        hostname=platform.node().split(".")[0]
+    )
+}
 
 CONFIG_FILE = get_env_setting('COURSE_DISCOVERY_CFG')
 with open(CONFIG_FILE) as f:

course_discovery/settings/utils.py

@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ def get_env_setting(setting):
     try:
         return environ[setting]
     except KeyError:
-        error_msg = "Set the [%s] env variable!" % setting
+        error_msg = "Set the [{}] env variable!".format(setting)
         raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg)