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chethan_181144
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Apr 06, 2019

F5 is sending very frequent health checks to application servers

F5 is sending very frequent health checks to application servers . In last 7 hours LB has sent 20000 health checks to one of the backend server . Can someone suggest is there any issue with the monit...
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Daniel_Wolf
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Apr 07, 2019

If you are just bothered by the ~20.000 log entries, for most web servers you can exclude certain IP addresses or certain User Agents from being logged. Works for sure with Apache and Nginx.

 

Just exclude the Self IP Addresses from being logged.

 

If the additional load caused by these requests is an issue - increase the interval.