Rejecting, after discussing on IRC today. This is a typical "balancing act" problem. Generally, users who enable hibernate.generate_statistics will benefit from having hibernate.session.events.log enabled automatically (which is the case, and the cause of what you're seeing). In addition, we didn't want to force users to also have to set logging to DEBUG, in addition to enabling the capability.

If you're using INFO, hibernate.generate_statistics, and don't want the event log, simply set hibernate.session.events.log to false.