Kolo

See everything happening in your running Django app

Kolo simplifies debugging your Django app by showing you how your code ran from request to response. All without leaving VSCode.

First steps

To get started using Kolo with Django, read our tutorial.

You can also learn why we built Kolo.

Using Kolo

You can use Kolo in VSCode to visualize the execution of your code.

There are three main ways to enable Kolo on your Python code:

• Analyse your entire program with kolo run

• Analyse part of your program with kolo.enabled or kolo.enable

• Analyse Django requests with KoloMiddleware

• Generate integration tests with Kolo

How to

• Share traces

• Delete traces

Configuring Kolo

• Customise Kolo for Python

• Customise Kolo in VSCode

• Use Kolo with docker

Talks

The Kolo team has presented several talks about Kolo:

• Kolo: Understanding everything your Django app is doing at runtime - Django Day CPH 2022

• Kolo beta announcement at DjangoCon US 2021

• Kolo alpha announcement at DjangoCon Europe 2021

Support

Kolo is in beta, so you may run into a problem or bug. You can:

• Talk to us on Discord

• Create an issue

• Email us

• Schedule a meeting with us to help get Kolo set up

Changelogs

• Release notes for the Python package

• Release notes for the VSCode extension