diff --git a/src/config.cc b/src/config.cc
index 16192909c..613c95ea4 100644
--- a/src/config.cc
+++ b/src/config.cc
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ namespace detail {
 			// ------------------------------- CELERITY_LOG_LEVEL ---------------------------------
 
 #if defined(CELERITY_DETAIL_ENABLE_DEBUG)
-			const auto log_lvl = parsed_and_validated_envs.get_or(env_log_level, log_level::debug);
+			const auto log_lvl = parsed_and_validated_envs.get_or(env_log_level, log_level::trace);
 #else
 			const auto log_lvl = parsed_and_validated_envs.get_or(env_log_level, log_level::info);
 #endif
@@ -201,7 +201,12 @@ namespace detail {
 			const auto has_dry_run_nodes = parsed_and_validated_envs.get(env_dry_run_nodes);
 			if(has_dry_run_nodes) { m_dry_run_nodes = *has_dry_run_nodes; }
 
+#if defined(CELERITY_DETAIL_ENABLE_DEBUG)
+			m_recording = parsed_and_validated_envs.get_or(env_recording, true);
+#else
 			m_recording = parsed_and_validated_envs.get_or(env_recording, false);
+#endif
+
 			m_horizon_step = parsed_and_validated_envs.get(env_horizon_step);
 			m_horizon_max_parallelism = parsed_and_validated_envs.get(env_horizon_max_para);