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django-memcache-status

This app displays the current load and some statistics for your memcached instances in the index view of your Django admin section.

Currently these memcached bindings are tested:

Backend	Support
django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache	✅ Works fine
django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache	❎ Does not provide stats

Other bindings may provide statistics too.

Compatibility Matrix:

Py/Dj	3.8	3.9	3.10	3.11
3.2 (LTS)	✓	✓	✓	✓
4.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
4.1	✓	✓	✓	✓
4.2 (LTS)	✓	✓	✓	✓

Installation

First add memcache_status to your INSTALLED_APPS list.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'memcache_status',
]

Then you have two options:

1. The quickest way is to replace your Django Admin index page with the one provided by django-memcache-status. This will show the memcache stats in the top left column. This was the regular behavior of django-memcache-status prior to version 2.0.

   Place this in any admin.py file of your project:

   from django.contrib import admin
   admin.site.index_template = 'memcache_status/admin_index.html'
   

2. If you need to manually place the stats, simply add the CSS file and include the memcache-status template anywhere you like:

   <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "memcache_status.css" %}"/>
   {% include "memcache_status/memcache_status.html" %}
   

Local Development

Install the package using Pipenv and run the tests:

$ pipenv install --dev
$ pipenv run test

You can test against a matrix of Python and Django versions using tox:

$ tox

Once run you will see a coverage report in /tmp/coverage_report/django-memcache-status.

You can run a local runserver with the test application to see the admin:

$ pipenv run django-admin.py migrate
$ pipenv run django-admin.py createsuperuser
$ pipenv run django-admin.py runserver

To test a specific cache backend define it in the env variable:

$ TEST_CACHE_BACKEND=django-pylibmc pipenv run django-admin.py runserver

Note

If you're testing pylibmc on OS X and you get an error like 'libmemcached/memcached.h' file not found, install pylibmc manually, then run the installation again:

$ brew install libmemcached
$ pipenv run pip install pylibmc --install-option="--with-libmemcached=/usr/local/Cellar/libmemcached/1.0.18_2/"
$ pipenv install --dev

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Changelog

v2.3 (2023-04-30):

• Compatibility and tests for Django 3.2 to 4.2, and Python 3.11.
• Dropped support for Django 2.2.

v2.2 (2020-02-05):

• Compatibility and tests for Django 2.2 and 3.0, and Python 3.8.
• Use pytest for testing.

v2.1 (2019-03-21):

• Removed some deprecated django-debug-toolbar and pre-Django 1.11 related workarounds.
• More comprehensive unittests across all backends and it's relation with django-debug-toolbar.

v2.0 (2019-03-16):

• Compatibility and tests for Django 1.11 → 2.1 and Python 2.7 → 3.7.
• Full code cleanup and update to latest standards.
• Tested against a variety of memcache bindings.
• Pipenv support for local development and testing.
• [Backwards Incompatible] memcache-status no longer automatically overwrites the admin index template to add the stats. Instead you have the option to either manually display the stats anywhere you like using a template include, or use the contributed memcache-status admin index page that overwrites the vanilla Django template and adds statistics to the top left admin index page. This was the regular behavior of django-memcache-status prior to version 2.0.

v1.3 (2016-10-13):

• Django 1.10 compatibility and test integration. Python 3 compatibility.

v1.2 (2009-11-06):

• Unittests, General code cleanup to support Django 1.8+ features such as
• AppConfig, Django-Debugtoolbar support, Python3 Support, Compatibility tests
• with latest supported Django versions (currently Django 1.8 and 1.9) but the
• package is likely working with Django 1.4+.

v1.1 (2009-06-29):

• Added support for Django's multiple cache backend setting. Kudos to Luke Granger-Brown for the implementation.
• This version is compatible with Django v1.3 and up.

v1.0 (2009-04-30):

• Initial Release.
• This version is compatible up to Django v1.2.

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