My question originates from [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6011747/is-there-a-near-consensus-guideline-for-log-levels) question, where one of the comments suggests that a DEBUG log level is finer grained than TRACE. Looking at what TRACE and DEBUG means in .NET, this seems to make sense, since, by definition, DEBUG (as a concept) is never seen in production. This is probably why they are'nt used as an event type in the Enterprise Library. On the other hand, all other implementations that I know of (log4net, nlog, common.logging) has TRACE as a finer level than DEBUG. That is, an application running at DEBUG log level would not write TRACE logs.

We need to implement our own log framework and I was wondering if there are more people out there that thinks that DEBUG really should be the most "spammy" log level? Or would you consider this a mistake if our new framework should provide some easy-to-use familiarity to new developers etc?

Thanks.