DRF API Logger Offers Production-Safe Request Logging for Django REST Framework

Debugging API failures in production Django REST Framework projects is difficult without structured visibility into requests, responses, and performance metrics. A common workaround is custom middleware, but it often grows complex and risks exposing sensitive data like passwords, tokens, and API keys in logs. DRF API Logger is an open-source package designed to capture API-level request and response details — including status codes, execution time, client IP, and headers — while supporting configurable masking of sensitive fields. The package also addresses performance concerns by avoiding heavy database writes within the main request cycle, and supports body-size limits to prevent log storage from becoming costly. The maintainer is sharing the tool to address a recurring observability challenge in Django projects and to gather feedback from the developer community.