Server info fills my log

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Nextcloud version (eg, 12.0.2):13.0.1
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 17.04):Centos 7
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): nginx 1.13.9
PHP version (eg, 7.1):7.2.3

The issue you are facing:
When having monitoring page open in my browser my access.log gets new line every 1s.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N):Y

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Install NC

  2. Go to monitoring page

  3. look at access.log

    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:11 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:12 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:13 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:14 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:15 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:17 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:18 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:20 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:21 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:22 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:23 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:24 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:25 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:26 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0"
    my.log.in.ip - - [16/Mar/2018:23:16:27 +0000] “GET /index.php/apps/serverinfo/update HTTP/2.0” 200 233 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0”

How do I stop logging those lines?

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You are requesting new data every second, so the web server logs it. Unless you don’t look for it for hours and with help of logrotate, the amount of log created wouldn’t worry me too much. If not, you can set in apache some regular expressions to exclude certain files from logging:

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