IMO database logging has good points and bad points: On the good side, its easy to manipulate (query, purge, transform, summarise) the log entries. Also you can access the log entries remotely using the database tools you already know. On the bad side, its undoubtedly slower and more resource-intensive. Also, unless you have multiple DB connections (which itself raises complexity and overhead), then committing a log entry to the database will also commit your unit of work. It seems to work well for "user logging", i.e. where the end user of your application (rather than just the dev team) would want to read the messages.