Sure it can be done via config directives: just set an env var whenever some request is inconsequential and server admins can configure their logging to ignore that request.
We already do that for svn operation logging. >________________________________ > From: Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> >To: Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> >Cc: dev@subversion.apache.org >Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:38 AM >Subject: Re: [Issue 3980] serf increases server load > >On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: > >> Question: Can we somehow mark those GETs as "less interesting" so that >> they can be filtered out of a normal access.log for higher-granularity >> debugging? > >I do not believe it can be done via configuration directives. >However, it seems that just as log entries can be piped to a program >like rotatelogs, they could also be piped to a program that did this >kind of suppression. Maybe any HTTP 2xx log entries for a path with >"!svn" could simply be suppressed by such a program? > >Something like this? > >http://serverfault.com/questions/285396/how-to-use-apache-piped-logs-to-regex-replace-out-unwanted-data-in-logs-in-real > >-- >Thanks > >Mark Phippard >http://markphip.blogspot.com/ > > >
