title: Should Azure Diagnostics be enabled for Production Deployment?
body: <p>I'm looking at performance improvements for Azure Web Role and wondering if Diagnostics should be left on when publishing/deploying to the production site. <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2012/01/11/with-azure-sdk-1-6-azure-diagnostics-is-enabled-by-default-can-cause-thousands-of-daily-transections-to-azure-storage.aspx" rel="nofollow">This article</a> says to disable it, but one of the comments say you lose critical data. </p>