Performance Implications of Trace Levels

The default trace level is None, which means TraceWorX have no performance impact on the running system, since it is not logging 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 Normal (Severe Error, Error, Warning, Normal) have no significant impact on the performance. More detailed trace levels like Debug, Debug Verbose, and especially All could noticeably slow down the performance of the system and result in very large trace log files due to the high volume of messages, so these levels should only be used when the 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 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.