python – API request tracing with NextJS, Nginx and Django

I’m trying to measure the exact time spent in each stage of my API request flow — starting from the browser, through Nginx, into Django, then the database, and back out through Django and Nginx to the client.

Essentially, I want to capture timestamps and time intervals for:

• When the browser sends the request

• When Nginx receives it

• When Django starts processing it

• Time spent in the database

• Django response time

• Nginx response time

• When the browser receives the response

Is there any Django package or recommended approach that can help log these timing metrics end-to-end? Currently I have to manually add timestamps in nginx conf file, django middleware, before and after the fetch call in the frontend. There is Datadog but for now I want a django lightweight solution.

Thanks!