diff --git a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index 0a21145489..c4a11ece45 100644
--- a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ tauri-plugin-clipboard-manager = "2.3.2"
 # wry/tauri-runtime-wry/webkit2gtk.
 # Pinned to =2.0.0 because 2.1.0+ introduced an unconditional call to
 # tauri::webview_version() which is gated behind tauri's `wry` feature.
-tauri-plugin-devtools = { version = "=2.0.0", default-features = false }
+tauri-plugin-devtools = { version = "=2.0.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
 enigo = "0.5.0"
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ wry = ["tauri/wry", "dep:webkit2gtk"]
 updater = ["dep:tauri-plugin-updater"]
 # CEF (Chromium) runtime. Build with --no-default-features --features cef.
 cef = ["dep:tauri-runtime-cef", "dep:cef"]
+# CrabNebula devtools. Off by default: its aggregator retains every metadata record for the
+# session, which costs hundreds of MB per minute once tauri-plugin-log feeds it.
+devtools = ["dep:tauri-plugin-devtools"]
 [patch.crates-io]
 tauri-typegen = { git = "https://github.com/SableClient/tauri-typegen", branch = "fix/nondeterministic-generation-cache" }
 
diff --git a/src-tauri/src/lib.rs b/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
index b33a631fb5..49cc521395 100644
--- a/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
@@ -415,13 +415,22 @@ pub fn run() {
 
             #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
             {
-                let (log_plugin, _level, logger) = tauri_plugin_log::Builder::default()
-                    .level(log::LevelFilter::Info)
-                    .split(app.handle())?;
-                let mut devtools = tauri_plugin_devtools::Builder::default();
-                devtools.attach_logger(logger);
-                app.handle().plugin(devtools.init())?;
-                app.handle().plugin(log_plugin)?;
+                #[cfg(feature = "devtools")]
+                {
+                    let (log_plugin, _level, logger) = tauri_plugin_log::Builder::default()
+                        .level(log::LevelFilter::Info)
+                        .split(app.handle())?;
+                    let mut devtools = tauri_plugin_devtools::Builder::default();
+                    devtools.attach_logger(logger);
+                    app.handle().plugin(devtools.init())?;
+                    app.handle().plugin(log_plugin)?;
+                }
+                #[cfg(not(feature = "devtools"))]
+                app.handle().plugin(
+                    tauri_plugin_log::Builder::default()
+                        .level(log::LevelFilter::Info)
+                        .build(),
+                )?;
             }
 
             Ok(())