# Django Orbit - A modern debugging and observability tool that orbits your Django application

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**Created:** [January 25, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-orbit-a-modern-debugging-and-observability-tool-that-orbits-your-django-application/44017 "2026-01-25T22:11:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro-stack](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/astro-stack/32/31349_2.png) [@astro-stack](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/astro-stack)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-orbit-a-modern-debugging-and-observability-tool-that-orbits-your-django-application/44017/1 "2026-01-25T22:11:31Z")

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Hi everyone! 👋

I’m excited to share a major update for **Django Orbit v0.6.3** , an open-source observability and debugging tool designed for the modern Django ecosystem.

If you’ve ever used Laravel Telescope, you know the feeling of having a “Mission Control” for your app. I wanted that same level of DX (Developer Experience) for Django, but with a twist: **Satellite Observability.**

### What is “Satellite Observability”?

Unlike traditional debug toolbars, Orbit runs on its own isolated URL (`/orbit/`).

- ✅ **No DOM pollution:** It doesn’t inject HTML into your templates.
- ✅ **Frontend agnostic:** Works perfectly with React, Vue, HTMX, or even headless APIs.
- ✅ **Zero CSS conflicts:** Your app styles remain untouched.

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### 🚀 What’s New in v0.6.3: The “Bulletproof” Release

The biggest challenge with dev tools is ensuring they don’t break the app they are supposed to monitor. This release fixes that:

- **🔌 Plug-and-Play Module System:** Every watcher (Cache, DB, Mail) now operates independently. If one module fails to initialize, the others keep working normally. No more crashes.
- **💚 Health Dashboard (`/orbit/health/`):** A new diagnostics page with visual indicators (Green/Red/Yellow) showing the status of your monitoring stack with full tracebacks for failed modules.
- **🛠 Fail-Safe Configuration:** Added `WATCHER_FAIL_SILENTLY` (default: True). It logs errors but keeps your dev server running no matter what.
- **📁 Storage & Transactions:** Now monitoring file operations (S3/Local) and database transaction blocks (`atomic()`) with duration and status tracking.

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### ✨ Key Features at a Glance:

- 🌐 **Requests & SQL:** Capture HTTP data and queries with N+1 detection.
- ⏰ **Background Jobs:** Native support for Celery, Django-Q, RQ, and APScheduler.
- 📧 **Mail & Signals:** Track outgoing emails and signal dispatches.
- 🔴 **Redis Watcher:** Monitor GET/SET and other Redis commands in real-time.
- 🛡 **Gates & Permissions:** Audit every authorization check in your app.
- 📊 **Stats Dashboard:** Apdex scores, percentiles (P95, P99), and throughput charts.

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### Quick Start

`pip install django-orbit`

1. Add `'orbit'` to `INSTALLED_APPS`.
2. Add `'orbit.middleware.OrbitMiddleware'` to your `MIDDLEWARE`.
3. Include `path('orbit/', include('orbit.urls'))` in your URLs.

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#### Dashboard

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/djangoproject/original/3X/2/6/2667e10e8e6b74c8deed3105c1b917eded9bb1ae.png)

### Links & Feedback

- 📦 **PyPI:** [django-orbit](https://pypi.org/project/django-orbit/)
- 🛰 **GitHub:** [astro-stack/django-orbit](https://github.com/astro-stack/django-orbit)

I’m building this in public and would love to hear your thoughts. What’s the one thing you feel is missing from your current Django debugging workflow?

Happy building! 🚀