How to prevent a log entry when an automation is executed?

Configuration
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In Home Assistant I have an automation which is triggered every time an MQTT message arrives in a MQTT topic.
Each time several log entries are written to home-assistant.log (see below).
Question: how can I prevent these log entries from appearing in the log?

2020-12-15 12:16:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.domoticz_sensor_state_temp] zz Domoticz domoticz_sensor_state_temp: Running automation actions
2020-12-15 12:16:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.domoticz_sensor_state_temp] zz Domoticz domoticz_sensor_state_temp: Executing step call service
2020-12-15 12:16:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.domoticz_sensor_state_temp] zz Domoticz domoticz_sensor_state_temp: Test condition template: True
2020-12-15 12:16:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.domoticz_sensor_state_temp] zz Domoticz domoticz_sensor_state_temp: Executing step call service
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https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/logbook/

# configuration.yaml
logbook:
  exclude:
    domains:
      - automation
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Thanks for the answer @GlennHA!
This turns off the messages for every automation.
How do I disable only for 1 automation?

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I already have that ‘exclude’ line in my config. And the messages still keep appearing in my log file…

So I guess this entry only disables writing to the logbook, which is something different than the file home-assistant.log

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There is no provision for exclusions for the system log.

There are options to define the logging level per integration:

Not sure if this will work for entities but you could try setting the logging level for your automation to something above info.

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Thanks! I will give it a try

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Thank you again Tom. I changed the log level of the Logger and the INFO entries are not written anymore to the log.

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Yes this is an old topic. But yes it does appear to work for entities.

default: info
logs:
  homeassistant.components.automation.androidtv_scans: warning
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For anyone wondering, that will only apply to the system log, it won’t stop logging to recorder/history/logbook. To prevent that you can add something like this to your configuration.yaml


recorder:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - automation.update_androidtv_every_2_secs
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Yes, but that is not what the question asked.

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That is what I was needing! Thanks!

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This is the answer I was looking for as well for the sensor.time entity. Works great.

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I did it but the strange thing is that now I opened the logbook just for something else, and it there, again.

I added the changed entity (only the automation was excluded until now), and restart the server and it looks good.

I will check it later to see if it comes back.