diff --git a/sentry-core/Cargo.toml b/sentry-core/Cargo.toml
index 81a5eeda..043bd952 100644
--- a/sentry-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sentry-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ harness = false
 default = []
 client = ["rand"]
 test = ["client", "release-health"]
+debug_logs = []
 release-health = []
 logs = []
 
diff --git a/sentry-core/src/logs.rs b/sentry-core/src/logs.rs
index 9be3ee33..523f47c2 100644
--- a/sentry-core/src/logs.rs
+++ b/sentry-core/src/logs.rs
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ impl LogsBatcher {
         }
 
         sentry_debug!("[LogsBatcher] Flushing {} logs", logs.len());
-
         if let Some(ref transport) = *transport.read().unwrap() {
             let mut envelope = Envelope::new();
             let logs_item: EnvelopeItem = logs.into();
diff --git a/sentry-core/src/macros.rs b/sentry-core/src/macros.rs
index edb75dcd..ca32a262 100644
--- a/sentry-core/src/macros.rs
+++ b/sentry-core/src/macros.rs
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ macro_rules! with_client_impl {
 // TODO: temporarily exported for use in `sentry` crate
 #[macro_export]
 #[doc(hidden)]
+#[cfg(feature = "debug_logs")]
 macro_rules! sentry_debug {
     ($($arg:tt)*) => {
         $crate::Hub::with(|hub| {
@@ -64,6 +65,16 @@ macro_rules! sentry_debug {
     }
 }
 
+/// Replace the exported macro with a no-op macro when debug_logs is disabled.
+#[macro_export]
+#[doc(hidden)]
+#[cfg(not(feature = "debug_logs"))]
+macro_rules! sentry_debug {
+    ($($arg:tt)*) => {
+        ();
+    };
+}
+
 #[allow(unused_macros)]
 macro_rules! minimal_unreachable {
     () => {
diff --git a/sentry-log/src/lib.rs b/sentry-log/src/lib.rs
index a01e8479..bd13ebae 100644
--- a/sentry-log/src/lib.rs
+++ b/sentry-log/src/lib.rs
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@
 //!
 //! let logger = sentry_log::SentryLogger::new().filter(|md| match md.level() {
 //!     log::Level::Error => LogFilter::Event,
+//!     #[cfg(feature = "logs")]
 //!     log::Level::Warn => LogFilter::Breadcrumb | LogFilter::Log,
+//!     #[cfg(not(feature = "logs"))]
+//!     log::Level::Warn => LogFilter::Breadcrumb,
 //!     _ => LogFilter::Ignore,
 //! });
 //! ```
diff --git a/sentry/Cargo.toml b/sentry/Cargo.toml
index 225df0c6..beaebc12 100644
--- a/sentry/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sentry/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ opentelemetry = ["sentry-opentelemetry"]
 test = ["sentry-core/test"]
 release-health = ["sentry-core/release-health", "sentry-actix?/release-health"]
 logs = ["sentry-core/logs", "sentry-tracing?/logs", "sentry-log?/logs"]
+debug_logs = ["sentry-core/debug_logs"]
 # transports
 transport = ["reqwest", "native-tls"]
 reqwest = ["dep:reqwest", "httpdate", "tokio"]