Performance Implications of Trace Levels

The default trace level is None, which means TraceWorX has no performance impact on the running system, since it does not log anything. Once tracing is turned on, it can have an effect on the overall performance of the system. Typically, any trace level up to and including Info has no significant impact on the performance. More detailed trace levels like Debug or Debug Verbose can noticeably slow system performance and produce very large trace log files due to the high volume of messages, so these levels should only be used when extra detail is needed to diagnose a problem.

Once you have finished gathering diagnostic information with TraceWorX, we highly recommend turning the tracing back off by setting the trace level to None for all modules. This will ensure that TraceWorX does not have any performance impact on your system when you do not need the diagnostic information that TraceWorX collects.