diff --git a/src/man/include/debug_levels.xml b/src/man/include/debug_levels.xml
index 0d9cc17bef..f43091ecba 100644
--- a/src/man/include/debug_levels.xml
+++ b/src/man/include/debug_levels.xml
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@
          <emphasis>9</emphasis>,
          <emphasis>0x4000</emphasis>: Extremely low-level tracing information.
     </para>
+    <para>
+         <emphasis>9</emphasis>,
+         <emphasis>0x20000</emphasis>: Performance and statistical data,
+         please note that due to the way requests are processed internally the
+         logged execution time of a request might be longer than it actually
+	 was.
+    </para>
     <para>
          <emphasis>10</emphasis>,
          <emphasis>0x10000</emphasis>: Even more low-level libldb tracing
diff --git a/src/tests/debug-tests.c b/src/tests/debug-tests.c
index 8964e94dd4..0cf4e4c199 100644
--- a/src/tests/debug-tests.c
+++ b/src/tests/debug-tests.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ START_TEST(test_debug_convert_old_level_old_format)
         SSSDBG_TRACE_FUNC,
         SSSDBG_TRACE_LIBS,
         SSSDBG_TRACE_INTERNAL,
-        SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL | SSSDBG_BE_FO,
+        SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL | SSSDBG_BE_FO | SSSDBG_PERF_STAT,
         SSSDBG_TRACE_LDB
     };
 
diff --git a/src/util/debug.c b/src/util/debug.c
index af97c6de0d..7dcf64f543 100644
--- a/src/util/debug.c
+++ b/src/util/debug.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ int debug_convert_old_level(int old_level)
         new_level |= SSSDBG_TRACE_INTERNAL;
 
     if (old_level >= 9)
-        new_level |= SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL | SSSDBG_BE_FO;
+        new_level |= SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL | SSSDBG_BE_FO | SSSDBG_PERF_STAT;
 
     if (old_level >= 10)
         new_level |= SSSDBG_TRACE_LDB;
diff --git a/src/util/debug.h b/src/util/debug.h
index 01713cb35b..54f9d1124c 100644
--- a/src/util/debug.h
+++ b/src/util/debug.h
@@ -112,13 +112,14 @@ int rotate_debug_files(void);
 #define SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL      0x4000   /* level 9 */
 #define SSSDBG_BE_FO          0x8000   /* level 9 */
 #define SSSDBG_TRACE_LDB     0x10000   /* level 10 */
+#define SSSDBG_PERF_STAT     0x20000   /* level 9 */
 
 /* IMPORTANT_INFO will be logged if any of bits >=  OP_FAILURE are on: */
 #define SSSDBG_IMPORTANT_INFO (SSSDBG_OP_FAILURE|SSSDBG_MINOR_FAILURE|\
                                SSSDBG_CONF_SETTINGS|SSSDBG_FUNC_DATA|\
                                SSSDBG_TRACE_FUNC|SSSDBG_TRACE_LIBS|\
                                SSSDBG_TRACE_INTERNAL|SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL|\
-                               SSSDBG_BE_FO|SSSDBG_TRACE_LDB)
+                               SSSDBG_BE_FO|SSSDBG_TRACE_LDB|SSSDBG_PERF_STAT)
 
 #define SSSDBG_INVALID        -1
 #define SSSDBG_UNRESOLVED      0