Sending data even with Django DEBUG=True

Setting Django DEBUG to True does not stop elastic agent from sending data to APM.

django.VERSION = (2, 2, 10, 'final', 0)
elastic-apm==5.4.3
This all runs in a docker image python:3.8.2

APM server is hosted at Elastic Cloud (they pointed me here), I don’t see where to check version, but since it was deployed 2 weeks ago, it should be the latest version (at least there is no option to update right now).

My tests:

lr@lr-local:~/app/kernelratings$ ./manage.py elasticapm check
[2020-03-26 14:58:51,341|INFO|customers.apps] Loading all registries...
[2020-03-26 14:58:55,294|INFO|customers.apps] Loaded all registries in 3.95 seconds!
Service name is set, good job!

SERVER_URL https://************************.apm.eu-west-1.aws.cloud.es.io looks fine

Looks like you're running in DEBUG mode. ElasticAPM will NOT gather any data while DEBUG is set to True.

If you want to test ElasticAPM while DEBUG is set to True, you can force ElasticAPM to gather data by setting ELASTIC_APM["DEBUG"] to True, like this

   ELASTIC_APM = {
       "DEBUG": True,
       # your other ELASTIC_APM settings
   }

Tracing middleware is configured! Awesome!

Please fix the above errors.

Then, I go to Kibana --> APM and I can see there is data sent from that container. I check the container-id reported in APM and it is the id of the container that reported the message pasted above (checked with “docker ps”)

If I totally remove the ELASTIC_APM setting (whiwle keeping Django DEBUG=True) and re-run Django, it shows errors (elastic-apm is then trying to connect to localhost…) all the time like these:

[2020-03-24 11:03:51,771|WARNING|urllib3.connectionpool] Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f3afa00fa30>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused')': /intake/v2/events

[2020-03-24 11:03:39,133|WARNING|urllib3.connectionpool] Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f3afa110940>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused')': /config/v1/agents

• requirements.txt:

numpy==1.18.1
scipy==1.4.1
scikit-learn==0.22.1
pandas==1.0.1
sklearn-pandas==1.8.0
xgboost==0.81
amqp==2.5.2
argparse==1.4.0
billiard==3.6.3.0
boto==2.49.0
boto3==1.12.7
celery==4.4.1
certifi==2019.11.28
cffi==1.14.0
cryptography==2.8
cython==0.29.15
elastic-apm==5.4.3
Django==2.2.10
django-ace-overlay==0.8.0
django-appconf==1.0.3
django-bootstrap-toolkit==2.15.0
django-celery-beat==2.0.0
django-celery-results==1.2.1
django-compressor==2.4
django-extensions==2.2.8
django-health-check==3.12.1
django-mysql==3.3.0
django-redis==4.11.0
django-statsd-mozilla==0.4.0
django-storages==1.9.1
django-timezone-field==4.0
django-tracking2==0.5.0
docopt==0.6.2
gender-guesser==0.4.0
google-api-python-client==1.7.8
google-measurement-protocol==1.0.0
gunicorn==19.9.0
ipython==7.13.0
jinja2==2.10.1
joblib==0.14.1
jsonschema==3.0.2
kombu==4.6.8
libsaas==0.4
maxminddb==1.4.1
meld3==2.0.0
mysqlclient==1.4.6
ndg-httpsclient==0.5.1
nltk==3.4.4
openpyxl==3.0.3
Pillow==6.1.0
psutil==5.6.3
pycparser==2.19
pycurl==7.43.0.3
Pygments==2.4.2
pymailcheck==1.0.0
pyOpenSSL==19.0.0
python-dateutil==2.8.1
pytz==2019.3
pyzmq==18.1.0
redis==3.4.1
requests==2.23.0
rollbar==0.14.7
setproctitle==1.1.10
simple-salesforce==0.74.2
six==1.12.0
South==1.0.2
statsd==3.3.0
tornado==6.0.3
ua-parser==0.7.1
Unidecode==1.1.1
urllib3==1.25.6
user_agents==1.1.0
xlrd==1.2.0

[xavier-lr]

I finally found that these settings disable all the attempts to connect to APM:

    'DISABLE_SEND': True,
    'CENTRAL_CONFIG': False,

[beniwohli]

Hi @xavier-lr

The recording flag that @basepi mentioned is almost finished and available in PR #790. Would you mind giving that a try to see if it fulfills your use case? You can install it like this:

pip install "https://github.com/beniwohli/apm-agent-python/archive/enabled-recording.zip#egg=elastic-apm==100"

Then you can set enabled to false to completely disable the agent. We will deprecate active in one of our next releases.