jazzband/django-silk

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4991 stars · 375 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

django-silk (Silk) is a live profiling and inspection tool for the Django framework. It intercepts and stores HTTP requests and database queries, then presents them in a web UI for performance analysis.

Use cases

• profile slow Django requests
• inspect SQL queries generated by Django views
• find performance bottlenecks in a Django app
• log and review HTTP request/response bodies during development
• trace execution time of Django middleware and views
• debug N+1 query problems in Django ORM

When to choose

• you develop Django applications and need request-level profiling
• you want a built-in UI to inspect queries and request data
• you need per-request performance metrics without external APM infrastructure

When to avoid

• your stack is not Django
• you need production-scale APM with distributed tracing across services
• profiling overhead is unacceptable in high-traffic production environments

Facets

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monitoring tracing benchmarking middleware web-development developer-tools performance backend python django profiling request-inspection sql-query-logging debugging web-server

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