Django syndication feed views and New Relic

Using New Relic together with Django? It is a fairly cool and noninvasive web performance monitoring situation that I’ve been testing out over the past month or so. One thing I figured out made it a lot easier to get unique web transaction name per syndication Feed subclass, which wasn’t happening out of the box. You’ll want to add a __name__ attribute to the class, giving you something like the following:

from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed

class NewsFeed(Feed):
    __name__ = 'news_feed'

You can see an example of this in action for multiple feeds in the Archweb NewsFeed implementation. This made feeds show up as “/feeds:news_feed” and “/feeds:package_feed” rather than all showing up under one web transaction name.

Now I’m just wishing New Relic was less expensive (or free!) for open-source project websites…

See Also

• MySQL deadlocking on simple inserts - March 7, 2012
• Arch Package Visualization - June 23, 2011
• Django South graphmigrations - February 16, 2011
• Useful PostgreSQL schema diff tool - January 9, 2011
• Python cached property decorator - December 10, 2010