I don't recall whether this was discussed before. I often find our INFO logging to be too sparse for useful diagnosis. A high performance logging framework will encourage us to log more. Specifically, Asynchronous Loggers look interesting. https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/async.html#Performance
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