Ignoring health checks in statistics

[Artur Bergman]

Just use vcl_error

Artur

On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Frank Gruellich wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we have two Varnish instances and a load balancer in front.  The load
> balancer periodically polls the varnishd's for a static file (lying  
> also
> at all the backend servers) to check if varnishd is still working.  It
> does that once per second.  This completely messes up statistics like
> hit ratio because that static file is served from cache all the  
> time, so
> currently our hit ratio is close to 99.9%.  I would like to have  
> counted
> this specific file neither as miss nor hit, but just serve it and  
> ignore
> it otherwise.  It doesn't even need to be logged.
>
> haproxy has an option monitor-net where you can specify that it does  
> not
> need to log requests from that subnet.  Does varnish offer a similar
> option?  Or is there some cool VCL snippet I could add?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
> -- 
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