InfluxDB keeps appending to /var/log/syslog

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Problem

I am running influxDB version: 1.7.8 on Ubuntu machine (18.04.3 LTS). Currently the /var/log/syslog file is growing at very high rate (about 5-10BG per 24h). I looked into what is being appending and it looks like this:

my_server:/var/log$ sudo tail /var/log/syslog
Feb 17 19:24:28 my_server_name influxd[12946]: [httpd] 127.0.0.1 - root [17/Feb/2020:19:24:28 +0000] "POST /write?db=db_name HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "python-requests/2.21.0" 1dd1516f-51bb-11ea-98f7-3a83c7c53dec 1192
Feb 17 19:24:28 my_server_name influxd[12946]: [httpd] 127.0.0.1 - root [17/Feb/2020:19:24:28 +0000] "POST /write?db=db_name HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "python-requests/2.21.0" 1dd1d454-51bb-11ea-98f8-3a83c7c53dec 1092
Feb 17 19:24:28 my_server_name influxd[12946]: [httpd] 127.0.0.1 - root [17/Feb/2020:19:24:28 +0000] "POST /write?db=db_name HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "python-requests/2.21.0" 1dd20d47-51bb-11ea-98f9-3a83c7c53dec 1077

I recognize the python-requests as it's downloading data via API.

Attempted solution

I read here and here that the default logging level of InfluxDB is info, so changing to error should fix the issue.

I changed it to error and then reloaded the service by:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart influxdb.service

However the syslog keeps increasing every second...

Can anyone help me get to the bottom of this?

Update 1

I wonder whether it has something to do with the HTTP logs in the documentation here? But I don't see any log level there. Ideally I'd like warning and error to be logged (ofc).

Update 2

In /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf under [http] I also tried changing log-enabled = false and suppress-write-log = true, but the writing to the syslog does not stop...

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1 Answers

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in [http] section

flux-log-enabled = false
suppress-write-log = true
access-log-status-filters = ["5xx", "4xx"]

this will only print request which has error code in 5xx and 4xx