Django provide a nice mechanism to report error in its "batteries included" goodness. You can easily setup the Django environment so that it will send you an email when a "server error" occurs. You just need to make sure the following is setup: Outbound email working The django environment must be able to send outbound emails. The actual requirement depends on your server environment, but you definitely need to have correct values setup for: settings.EMAIL_HOST settings.EMAIL_PORT settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD