>   > The second reason is we use Splunk as a log aggregator. In Splunk

>    > it is easy to filter these out when looking at the log but having

>    > all these almost useless messages significantly adds to the

>    > activity of the Splunk forwarder on these systems.

>    I'm surprised Splunk doesn't have a "drop records matching pattern" or

>    something like that, so you can just never ingest them. Maybe that

>    would be a feature too easy to exploit.



    Chris, that is a great idea. I don't control the aggregator and that may be 
where a filter might be configured. I will check.



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Distributed Application Platform Services

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