diff --git a/routes/webhook.js b/routes/webhook.js
index 396f24d..9c252ce 100644
--- a/routes/webhook.js
+++ b/routes/webhook.js
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ router.post('/', wrap(function* (request, response, next) {
     return warn(request, response, 'Webhooks not enabled');
   }
   const deliveryId = request.headers['x-github-delivery'];
-  getLogger().verbose('Received', `Webhook event`, { delivery: deliveryId });
+  getLogger().verbose('Received', 'Webhook event', { delivery: deliveryId });
   const signature = request.headers['x-hub-signature'];
   const eventType = request.headers['x-github-event'];
 
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ router.post('/', wrap(function* (request, response, next) {
     return fatal(request, response, 'Missing signature or event type on GitHub webhook');
   }
 
+  // Ignoring since check events aren't useful for now and constitute over 99% of the events traffic.
+  if (['check_run', 'check_suite'].includes(eventType)) {
+    getLogger().info('Ignored', 'Webhook event', { delivery: deliveryId, eventType, signature });
+    return response.status(200);
+  }
+
   const data = request.body;
   const computedSignature = 'sha1=' + crypto.createHmac('sha1', webhookSecret).update(data).digest('hex');
   if (!crypto.timingSafeEqual(new Buffer(signature), new Buffer(computedSignature))) {