[Answered ]-Django: Show logging WITHOUT creating mysite.log file

You can work with a console handler that works with the StreamHandler instead:

LOGGING = {
    # …,
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django': {
            'handlers':['console'],
            'propagate': True,
            'level':'DEBUG',
        },
        'MYAPP': {
            'handlers':['console'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
        },
    }

This will then write to the standard output channel (stdout).

the file typically ends up being massive and I don’t use it.

You can also work with a RotatingFileHandler [python-doc], this will prevent making huge files by only retaining the last n bytes:

LOGGING = {
    # …,
    'handlers': {
        'rotate': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.RotatingFileHandler',
            'filename': 'mysite.log',
            'maxBytes': 10*1024*1024
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django': {
            'handlers':['rotate'],
            'propagate': True,
            'level':'DEBUG',
        },
        'MYAPP': {
            'handlers':['rotate'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
        },
    }