I wrote a decorator to make the request available to logging by using a LoggerAdpater and RequestInfo make the request object dict-like.

class RequestInfo(object):

    def __init__(self, request):
        self.request = request

    def __getitem__(self, name):

        if name == 'request.host':
            return socket.gethostname()

        if name.startswith('request.meta.'):
            val = name.split('.')[2]
            try:
                return self.request.META[val.upper()]
            except KeyError as e:
                return None
        return eval('self.%s' % (name))

    def _get_attrs(self, obj):
        attrs = []
        for attr in dir(obj):
            try:
                if not attr.startswith('_') and \
                        not callable(getattr(obj, attr)):
                    attrs.append(attr)
            except AttributeError:
                pass
        return attrs

    def __iter__(self):
        keys = ['request.host']
        keys.extend(['request.%s' % (a) for a in
                self._get_attrs(self.request)])
        keys.extend(['request.session.%s' % (a) for a in
            self._get_attrs(self.request.session)])
        keys.extend(['request.user.%s' % (a) for a in
            self._get_attrs(self.request.user)])
        keys.extend(['request.meta.%s' % (a.lower()) for a in
            self.request.META.keys()])
        return keys.__iter__()

def logger(name):
    def wrap(func):
        def caller(*args, **kwargs):
            request = None
            for arg in args:
                if isinstance(arg, HttpRequest):
                    request = arg
            if 'logger' not in kwargs:
                if request is not None:
                    kwargs['logger'] = logging.LoggerAdapter(
                            logging.getLogger(name), RequestInfo(request))
                else:
                    kwargs['logger'] = logging.getLogger(name)
            return func(*args, **kwargs)
        return caller
    return wrap
its meant to be used with the views like this 
@log.logger(__name__)
def home(request, logger=None):
    logger.info('user performed some action')
update your logging.yaml to use the new format. For more info on that please see my previous post. 
request-json:
    (): log.CustomJsonFormatter
    format: "'created', 'request.host', 'module', 'funcName', 'lineno', 'levelname', 'request.meta.remote_addr',  'request.meta.http_user_agent', 'request.user.username', 'request.path', 'message'"
and the resulting log message should look something like this 
{"host": "fastcgi22", "request.meta.http_user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/18.0.996.0 Chrome/18.0.996.0 Safari/535.15", "request.path": "/", "created": 1326706577.275584, "module": "log", "funcName": "caller", "request.user.username": "derrick", "lineno": 114, "request.meta.remote_addr": "76.93.216.138", "message": "user performed some action", "levelname": "INFO"}
Now django requests are fully integrated with logging. Happy Trails.