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With the switch to tracing we did not set the `max_log_level` anymore.
This resulted in a performance degradation as logging did not early
exited and thus, `trace` logs were at least resolved every time.

This pr fixes it by ensuring that we set the correct max log level.

* utility

* sudo

* more

* recovery

* better formatting