Records full history of django models and mongoengine documents. Only records if the changes can be related to a request. Only records if the model or document is present as a MonitoredModel. Changes are recorded into django's own LogEntry (lizard_admin_history)

The signature of MonitoredModel is the same as that of django's ContentType. Therefore, to insert all models for your app, you can do this in the dbshell:

insert into lizard_history_monitoredmodel
    select * from django_content_type where
    app_label='your_app_label';

When adding manually, note that the model name should be lowercase, just like in django's contenttype table. When a model is monitored, the history of its objects can be queried in django:

from lizard_history.utils import get_simple_history
get_simple_history(my_object) # Get basic created / modified info

from lizard_history.utils import get_history
get_history(obj=my_object)  # Gets a detailed history list,
                            # including log_entry_id
get_history(log_entry_id)   # Gets detailed history for one change event.

It is possible to log changes to monitored models even outside a request, for example when executing management commands. A special fake request can be started:

from lizard_history.utils import start_fake_request, end_fake_request
start_fake_request(user=some_user)  # Kwargs will become request attributes
# Do stuff that should be logged by lizard_history
end_fake_request()

If the code above is run during a real request, the real request takes precedence over the fake request.