Is there an easy way to turn off logs for healthcheck paths?

[guyschlider]

Lets say I want to add a custom location {} directive to the nginx.conf without having a fully modified version of it,
What is the best practice for doing so?
location /health { access_log off; error_log /dev/stderr error; proxy_pass http://api; }
for example

[tony-garcia]

This is how I turned off logging for health check requests. (in my app, the health checks were hitting the URL /heathcheck/

map $request_uri $loggable {
  /healthcheck/ 0;
  default 1;
}

server {
...
  access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main if=$loggable;
...
}

source: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_log_module.html