The Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response. It is a small toolbar that, when activated, situates itself in the top-right location of the browser window. When particular panels are clicked, more details about that panel's content are displayed.

Currently, the following panels have been written and are working:

• Django version
• SQL queries including time to execute
• Request timer
• Common HTTP headers

If you have ideas for other panels please let us know.

1. Add the debug_toolbar directory to your Python path.

2. Add the following middleware to your project's settings.py file:

   'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',

   Tying into middleware allows each panel to be instantiated on request and rendering to happen on response.

3. Add a tuple called DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PANELS to your settings.py file that specifies the full Python path to the panel that you want included in the Toolbar. This setting looks very much like the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting. For example:

   DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PANELS = (
       'debug_toolbar.panels.version.VersionDebugPanel',
       'debug_toolbar.panels.sql.SQLDebugPanel',
       'debug_toolbar.panels.timer.TimerDebugPanel',
       'debug_toolbar.panels.headers.HeaderDebugPanel',
   )

   You can change the ordering of this tuple to customize the order of the panels you want to display.

4. Add debug_toolbar to your INSTALLED_APPS setting so Django can find the the template files associated with the Debug Toolbar.
5. The UI effects of the Toolbar currently depend on jQuery to be already included in your templates. So currently to test out the toolbar jQuery already needs to be loaded on the page. We'll need a solution for this at some point.

• Add more panels
• Panel idea: Show some commonly used settings from settings.py
• Panel idea: Show GET and POST variables
• Panel idea: AJAX call to show cprofile data similar to the ?prof idea
• CSS Stylings
• Remove dependency on jQuery and come up with a general workable solution.