ArcGIS Server logs two items when a request for a service does not exist; A java exception and a nicer log that X service was not found. While I understand it can be important to know when requests are being made for services that do not exist, it would be nice to remove some of these requests entirely as they produce a lot of noise.
We delete services when they are no longer required by an application. We specifically tell people to not take them on as a dependency in their own applications, maps, and other systems. Yet, we find our logs piling up with messages that service x no longer exist; 1000's per week. It is almost impossible to find and notify these people to update their services based on the logs provided.
We are able to block REST requests at our load balancer so they do not show up in our arcgis server logs but SOAP requests are more difficult to block.
If there was an admin configuration endpoint area where we could maintain a list of services we know to be deleted and do not want to be warned about any longer, we could reduce the amount of noise in the logs to help find errors that are more important.
