I move my port somewhere else to reduce the clutter
> manually look at the logs every once in a while
I imagine that this is more by curiosity than anything else (which is a perfectly normal reason to do that - I do it from time to time just because). For logs analysis and alerting I have automated systems.
> using password auth is a bad idea
It is not if the password is correct, security speaking.
I move my port somewhere else to reduce the clutter
> manually look at the logs every once in a while
I imagine that this is more by curiosity than anything else (which is a perfectly normal reason to do that - I do it from time to time just because). For logs analysis and alerting I have automated systems.
> using password auth is a bad idea
It is not if the password is correct, security speaking.