I’m trying to configure cleaner logging from my app to OpenSearch and I’m trying to figure out what is responsible for the request logging I’m seeing in my runtime logs.
For example, I have an uptime monitor configures and every time it hits my app I see the following in the logs:
[django-app] [2025-07-30 21:50:13] 10.XXX.XX.XX - - [30/Jul/2025:22:50:13 +0100] "GET /health-check/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "https://api.demo.example.ie/health-check/" "Mozilla/5.0+(compatible; UptimeRobot/2.0; http://www.uptimerobot.com/)"
I don’t believe it to be coming from my app or app server, so I’m wondering is the DO app platform load balancer (or VM) responsible for these? If so, is there any way to configure their formatting or disable them?
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Hi there,
Hmm, not 100% sure, but I don’t think App Platform itself adds those logs, usually it just streams whatever your app outputs to stdout/stderr. That kind of log looks like it might be coming from the app server (maybe Django’s built-in dev server or gunicorn if you’re using it).
I haven’t seen a way to configure or disable request logs from the platform side, but might be worth double-checking with the DigitalOcean support to be sure: https://do.co/support.
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