nginx-like access logging middleware for Django 2.0

middleware.py

import logging
import datetime


def access_logging(get_response):
    logger = logging.getLogger("access_logging")

    def middleware(request):
        response = get_response(request)
        log_format = '{remote_addr} - {remote_user} [{time_local}] "{request}" {status} {body_bytes_sent} ' \
                     '"{http_referer}" "{http_user_agent}" "{http_x_forwarded_for}"'
        log_data = {
            'remote_addr': request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR', '-'),
            'remote_user': request.META.get('REMOTE_USER', '-'),
            'time_local': datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S +0000"),
            'request': "{} {} {}".format(request.META.get('REQUEST_METHOD', '-'), request.path,
                                         request.META.get('SERVER_PROTOCOL')),
            'status': response.status_code,
            'body_bytes_sent': len(response.content),
            'http_referer': request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', '-'),
            'http_user_agent': request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', '-'),
            'http_x_forwarded_for': request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', '-'),
        }
        logger.info(log_format.format(**log_data))
        return response
    return middleware

settings.py

MIDDLEWARE.append('myapp.middleware.access_logging')

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': os.getenv('DJANGO_LOG_LEVEL', 'ERROR'),
        },
        'access_logging': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': 'INFO',
        },
    },
}