Stategy to filter BIG-IP health monitor GETs from Apache/Tomcat logs?

Hi All,

 

 

I was wondering what other people do to filter out the health monitor GET requests from the Apache/Tomcat logs?

 

 

Two BIG-IPs are checking 3 IPs pointing to the same host. At the default setting of 5 seconds it is contributing to non-negligible load, chewing up disk space (on a SAN) and "polluting" the logs.

 

 

I can get the hosting provider to up the seconds for the check but the logs would still contain these requests.

 

 

For Apache I'm looking at the Piped Logs capability to send the GETs from the BIG-IPs to /dev/null. I presume similar capability exists in Tomcat (Coyote).

 

 

How do you deal with this? Care to share your strategy/code?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

Jason