# Resources Generating Excessive INFO Logs

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# Resources Generating Excessive INFO Logs

## Explanation

Some GCP services and workloads generate INFO-level logs at very high frequencies - for example, load balancers logging every HTTP request or GKE nodes logging system health messages. While valuable for debugging, these logs can flood Cloud Logging with non-critical data. Without log-level tuning or exclusion filters, organizations incur continuous ingestion charges for messages that are seldom analyzed. Over time, this behavior compounds into a persistent waste driver across large-scale environments.

## Relevant Billing Model

Cloud Logging costs are driven by data ingestion volume and storage retention. Excessive INFO-level logs increase both metrics, especially when emitted by high-traffic resources such as API endpoints, Kubernetes clusters, or compute instances. Since these logs rarely indicate actionable events, their ingestion often yields limited operational value.

## Detection

- Identify resources or services with log ingestion volumes significantly above expected baselines

- Correlate ingestion costs with log severity levels to determine if INFO logs dominate total volume

- Review application or service configurations that define log verbosity levels

- Assess whether INFO-level logs provide measurable operational value or simply duplicate metrics already available through monitoring

## Remediation

- Adjust log verbosity in resource configurations or application code to emit fewer INFO-level messages

- Apply Logging sink filters or exclusions to prevent ingestion of repetitive INFO logs

- Aggregate high-volume INFO logs into sampled or summarized events where detailed records are unnecessary

- Establish logging standards that define appropriate verbosity levels for each environment and service type

## Relevant Documentation

- [Cloud Logging Exclusions and Filters](https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/exclusions)

- [Cloud Logging Pricing](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing)

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## At a glance

Reference

CER-0253

Cloud provider

GCP

Service

GCP Cloud Logging

Category

[Other](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/service-category/other)

Inefficiency type

Excessive Log Verbosity

## Contributed by

- ### Yuval Goldstein

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