diff --git a/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/completion/VscodeCompletionEngineAdapter.java b/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/completion/VscodeCompletionEngineAdapter.java
index 70beff7c3..9dbb0eef5 100644
--- a/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/completion/VscodeCompletionEngineAdapter.java
+++ b/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/completion/VscodeCompletionEngineAdapter.java
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ public class VscodeCompletionEngineAdapter implements VscodeCompletionEngine {
 
 	@Override
 	public CompletionList getCompletions(CancelChecker cancelToken, TextDocumentPositionParams params) {
+		long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
 		SimpleTextDocumentService documents = server.getTextDocumentService();
 		
 		TextDocument doc = documents.getLatestSnapshot(params);
@@ -195,7 +197,8 @@ public class VscodeCompletionEngineAdapter implements VscodeCompletionEngine {
 				log.info("error while compututing completions", e);
 			}
 			finally {
-				log.info("Got {} completions", list.getItems().size());
+				long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+				log.info("Got {} completions in " + (end - start) + "ms", list.getItems().size());
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/util/SimpleTextDocumentService.java b/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/util/SimpleTextDocumentService.java
index 4d8d695fb..0c1728078 100644
--- a/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/util/SimpleTextDocumentService.java
+++ b/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/util/SimpleTextDocumentService.java
@@ -302,7 +302,10 @@ public class SimpleTextDocumentService implements TextDocumentService, DocumentE
 	}
 	
 	private Hover computeHover(CancelChecker cancelToken, HoverParams hoverParams) {
+		long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
 		try {
+
 			log.debug("hover handler starting");
 			HoverHandler h = hoverHandler;
 			if (h != null) {
@@ -311,8 +314,10 @@ public class SimpleTextDocumentService implements TextDocumentService, DocumentE
 			}
 			log.debug("no hover because there is no handler");
 			return null;
+			
 		} finally {
-			log.debug("hover handler finished");
+			long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+			log.info("hover computation done in " + (end - start) + "ms");
 		}
 	}