ECO-OBS-LOG-001¶
Name: Excessive production debug logging
Category: Observability & Telemetry
Family: Logging
Primary layer: process
System layers: process
Description¶
Verbose debug logging remains enabled in production, increasing CPU, storage, network, and review cost.
Impact¶
- type: storage
- confidence: 0.85
- notes: Added as part of the 0.3.0 expansion to capture cross-system sustainability and operational waste.
Detection¶
- method: static-or-runtime
- confidence: 0.55
- runtime_validation_required: Yes
Remediation¶
- guidance: Set environment-specific log levels, sample noisy events, and apply retention controls.
- tradeoffs: May require architecture, product, or operations review rather than a local code change.
Cost Dimensions¶
- compute: medium
- memory: low
- network: medium
- storage: high
- human_time: medium
- carbon: medium
- water: low
Amplification¶
- scales_with_users: Yes
- scales_with_data_volume: Yes
- scales_non_linearly: No
Temporal Behavior¶
- startup_only: No
- steady_state: Yes
- burst_sensitive: Yes
- time_degradation: No
Runtime Evidence¶
- log volume metrics
- logging config
- storage billing
Pattern examples¶
No pattern examples provided.
Remediation examples¶
No remediation examples provided.
Metadata¶
- catalog_version: 0.4.0
- status: draft
- source: catalog expansion recommendations applied 2026-05-21