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Is there a way to disable AWS ELB's health check completely? I use a logger middleware (morgan) to log all requests and it's quite annoying for health check requests to get logged every 5min.

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Rather than disabling it completely, have your webserver serve a static HTML page (thus bypassing node entirely) and check that URL. Alternatively, morgan appears to have a skip function you can use to exempt certain requests from logging - the ELB sends a particular HTTP user agent string (ELB-HealthChecker/1.0, I'd ignore the version number though) you can look for.

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