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Why is logging every request at INFO level a bad default for a production service?

INFO is meant for significant business events worth a permanent record; logging every routine request at INFO drowns real signal in noise and costs real money in log ingestion/storage at scale — request-level detail belongs at DEBUG, enabled only when actively investigating something.

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