Add newrelic handler, rather than custom function to log exceptions

djangoapps/courseware/views.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ from lxml import etree
 from module_render import render_module, make_track_function, I4xSystem
 from models import StudentModule
 from student.models import UserProfile
-from util.errors import record_exception
 from util.views import accepts
 from multicourse import multicourse_settings
 
@@ -114,7 +113,7 @@ def render_section(request, section):
     try:
         dom = content_parser.section_file(user, section, coursename)
     except:
-        record_exception(log, "Unable to parse courseware xml")
+        log.exception("Unable to parse courseware xml")
         return render_to_response('courseware-error.html', {})
 
     context = {
@@ -133,7 +132,7 @@ def render_section(request, section):
     try:
         module = render_module(user, request, dom, module_object_preload)
     except:
-        record_exception(log, "Unable to load module")
+        log.exception("Unable to load module")
         context.update({
             'init': '',
             'content': render_to_string("module-error.html", {}),
@@ -182,7 +181,7 @@ def index(request, course=None, chapter="Using the System", section="Hints"):
     try:
         dom = content_parser.course_file(user,course)	# also pass course to it, for course-specific XML path
     except:
-        record_exception(log, "Unable to parse courseware xml")
+        log.exception("Unable to parse courseware xml")
         return render_to_response('courseware-error.html', {})
 
     dom_module = dom.xpath("//course[@name=$course]/chapter[@name=$chapter]//section[@name=$section]/*[1]", 
@@ -211,7 +210,7 @@ def index(request, course=None, chapter="Using the System", section="Hints"):
     try:
         module = render_module(user, request, module, module_object_preload)
     except:
-        record_exception(log, "Unable to load module")
+        log.exception("Unable to load module")
         context.update({
             'init': '',
             'content': render_to_string("module-error.html", {}),
@@ -256,7 +255,7 @@ def modx_dispatch(request, module=None, dispatch=None, id=None):
     try:
         xml = content_parser.module_xml(request.user, module, 'id', id, coursename)
     except:
-        record_exception(log, "Unable to load module during ajax call")
+        log.exception("Unable to load module during ajax call")
         if accepts(request, 'text/html'):
             return render_to_response("module-error.html", {})
         else:
@@ -276,7 +275,7 @@ def modx_dispatch(request, module=None, dispatch=None, id=None):
                                                              id, 
                                                              state=oldstate)
     except:
-        record_exception(log, "Unable to load module instance during ajax call")
+        log.exception("Unable to load module instance during ajax call")
         if accepts(request, 'text/html'):
             return render_to_response("module-error.html", {})
         else:

envs/logsettings.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def get_logger_config(log_dir,
                      " %(process)d] [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] - %(message)s").format(
                         logging_env=logging_env, hostname=hostname)
 
-    handlers = ['console'] if debug else ['console', 'syslogger']
+    handlers = ['console'] if debug else ['console', 'syslogger', 'newrelic']
 
     return {
         'version': 1,
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ def get_logger_config(log_dir,
                 'filename' : tracking_file_loc,
                 'formatter' : 'raw',
             },
+            'newrelic' : {
+                'level': 'ERROR',
+                'class': 'newrelic_logging.NewRelicHandler',
+                'formatter': 'raw',
+            }
         },
         'loggers' : {
             'django' : {
@@ -83,4 +88,4 @@ def get_logger_config(log_dir,
                 'propagate' : False
             },
         }
-    }
\ No newline at end of file
+    }

lib/newrelic_logging/__init__.py

+import newrelic.agent
+
+import logging
+
+class NewRelicHandler(logging.Handler):
+    def emit(self, record):
+        if record.exc_info is not None:
+            params = record.__dict__
+            params['log_message'] = record.getMessage()
+
+            newrelic.agent.record_exception(
+                *record.exc_info,
+                params=params
+            )

lib/util/errors.py

-import newrelic.agent
-import sys
-
-def record_exception(logger, msg, params={}, ignore_errors=[]):
-    logger.exception(msg)
-    newrelic.agent.record_exception(*sys.exc_info())
-