Is there a way to disable the baked-in Exchange 2013 diagnostic logging?

I see google-fu around relocation of it, but couldn’t find an off switch.  My 
concern relates to image-based backups of these systems and having to seed an 
extra semi-useless 1GB+ per day for things like this from a default install:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange 
Server\V15\Logging\Diagnostics\DailyPerformanceLogs
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange 
Server\V15\Logging\Monitoring\Monitoring\ActiveMonitoringTraceLogs

Those directories appear to self-clean, so it's not a permanently growing file 
structure ... but it still results in a massive daily delta for image backups 
that'd just as soon avoid seeding to disk and cloud if I can.

I know why it's there (preemptive diags for PSS in the event I need to invoke 
them) but curious if there's a way to just turn it off.

Anyone know anything on this?  I presume that turning off Health Manager 
service maybe helps, not sure if there's a downside to that, or if that's 
comprehensive enough to stop that data being written (maybe there's baked-in 
tasks as well, etc etc)

Any insight/pointers appreciated.  I don't mind having that data around except 
for the negative impact on those image-based backups.

Rick

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