# How to not process request from monitoring services

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-not-process-request-from-monitoring-services/184833>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [March 9, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-not-process-request-from-monitoring-services/184833 "2010-03-09T11:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![vnjug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@vnjug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vnjug)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-not-process-request-from-monitoring-services/184833/1 "2010-03-09T11:40:21Z")

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Hi all,

I have a lot of requests like this

85.73.113.168 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:10 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
85.73.113.168 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:10 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
85.73.113.168 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:10 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
85.73.113.168 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:10 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
85.73.113.168 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:10 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
85.73.113.168 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:10 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
164.100.5.111 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:11 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”

I don’t want this kind of request to be logged and handled by upstream  
servers. How can I do it?

Regards,

Hoang

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**Author:** ![vnjug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@vnjug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vnjug)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-not-process-request-from-monitoring-services/184833/2 "2010-03-09T12:42:07Z")

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Hi,

On 03/09/2010 07:40 PM, Hoang Hoang wrote:

> 164.100.5.111 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:11 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
> 112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
> 112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
> 112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”
> 
> I don’t want this kind of request to be logged and handled by upstream  
> servers. How can I do it?

Check [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,56056](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,56056) for some discussions about  
this.

Zev

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**Author:** ![vnjug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@vnjug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vnjug)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-not-process-request-from-monitoring-services/184833/3 "2010-03-10T04:06:41Z")

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Zev B. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 03/09/2010 07:40 PM, Hoang Hoang wrote:
> 
> > 164.100.5.111 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:11 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
> > 112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
> > 112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”  
> > 112.132.89.226 - - [09/Mar/2010:04:36:15 -0600] “-” 400 0 “-” “-”
> > 
> > I don’t want this kind of request to be logged and handled by upstream  
> > servers. How can I do it?
> 
> Check [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,56056](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,56056) for some discussions about  
> this.
> 
> Zev

Thank a lot, Zev

Regards,

Hoang