ECO-CMP-JAVA-010 — Debug logging in production hot path¶

Category: Computation (CMP)
Family: Java (JAVA)
Layer: Code
Tier: 1
Severity: note
Tags: java, logging
Legacy ID: ECO-JAVA-010

Summary¶

Verbose logs in hot paths waste CPU and I/O.

Logging can become a dominant cost under high throughput.

{
  "confidence": 0.6,
  "notes": "Worse with sync appenders.",
  "type": "io"
}

{
  "languages": [
    "java"
  ],
  "method": "config"
}

{
  "guidance": "Lower verbosity; sample; avoid heavy string formatting unless enabled.",
  "tradeoffs": "Less detail unless sampled."
}

{
  "system_layers": [
    "code"
  ]
}