Gunicorn: disable health check logging in access logging

Created on 16 May 2018 · 3Comments · Source: benoitc/gunicorn

we got tons of these in our access log at high frequency (eg. health checks, metric scrapes by prometheus):

"GET /healthz HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "-" "kube-probe/1.8"

which generally is fine, but very verbose. Can we somehow ignore a path from access logging?

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thomasjungblut

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no action since. closing the issue. Also I don't think we should do anything about incoming requests.

benoitc on 9 Oct 2018

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It'd be great to be able to configure gunicorn to not log healthcheck requests if the result is 200. These definitely crowd my logs too.

elijahchancey on 21 Dec 2019

I don't think it makes sense to add this kind of feature. Gunicorn uses Python logging. You can definitely implement a log filter of some kind at the Python level or lower. You could filter the output steam, or filter the log lines as they are forwarded to an aggregator system. I just can't see a way it feels right to implement features in the core of Gunicorn for this.