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Define effective hierarchy of debug logging

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Since Aug 13, 2025.

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Description

The INFO log level is way to verbose about the inner config of objects. We should push many of the messages to higher log levels and/or rewrite some messages to be less verbose.

Here is a proposal for what we could focus on in each log level:

  • ERROR: Anything that leads to complete failure of the test
  • WARNING: Things might be going wrong, or not happening in the expected way
    • Requests erroring
    • Concurrency saturated
  • INFO: Things that should be happening that help explain the state
    • Info about run configuration, dataset...
    • What RPS settings are calculated in the sweep
    • Infrequent status updates
    • Info about output calculations / files that its dumped to
  • DEBUG: Stuff like prompts and results
  • TRACE: token-level events from the requests

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