Lots of server-status queries in http-log

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While debugging a proxy problem in NS I encountered lots of get server-status http requests every second, which fill the log files. Example:

localhost - - [19/Jul/2020:21:35:31 +0200] "GET /server-status?auto HTTP/1.1" 200 440 "-" "-"

What are they for and is there a possibility to deactivate them?

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It’s the netdata service checking the web server.

To disable the log entry you may edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and at line 217 comment out the CustomLog and add a custom one:

#CustomLog "logs/access_log" combined
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/server-status$" dontlog
CustomLog "logs/access_log" combined env=!dontlog

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Thanks. Perhaps this should become default in Nethserver.

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Why? Unless you’re extremely short of disk space, why would you suggest this?

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Because it makes log files unreadable.

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Continuing the discussion from Lots of server-status queries in http-log:

I confirm your solution works. I think it should be marked as the topic solution :blush:

If you are short of disk space it is possible to enable log compression under System > Settings > ....

Sadly it requires changing the main httpd.conf file, which is not a template (by design choice) and I wouldn’t change that choice now. I tried every possible path for an additional drop-in .conf file: it seems a limitation of Apache that allows only the “addition” of “CustomLog” directives. There’s no way to remove an existing one by putting similar lines before or after httpd.conf inclusion.

I understand. May I suggest a grep -v server-status on them?

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