diff --git a/core/nginx/conf/nginx.conf b/core/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
index 4db963d3..bc0a51ec 100644
--- a/core/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
+++ b/core/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ http {
     # Standard HTTP configuration with slight hardening
     include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
     default_type application/octet-stream;
-    access_log /dev/stdout;
     sendfile on;
     keepalive_timeout 65;
     server_tokens off;
@@ -38,6 +37,13 @@ http {
       ~*\.(ico|css|js|gif|jpeg|jpg|png|woff2?|ttf|otf|svg|tiff|eot|webp)$ 97d;
     }
 
+    map $request_uri $loggable {
+      /health 0;
+      /auth/email 0;
+      default 1;
+    }
+    access_log /dev/stdout combined if=$loggable;
+
     # compression
     gzip on;
     gzip_static on;