diff --git a/components/espcoredump/Kconfig b/components/espcoredump/Kconfig
index 623fc059ac..88fe1db45b 100644
--- a/components/espcoredump/Kconfig
+++ b/components/espcoredump/Kconfig
@@ -63,6 +63,14 @@ menu "Core dump"
         help
             Enables/disable core dump module.
 
+    config ESP_COREDUMP_LOGS
+        bool "Enable coredump logs for debugging"
+        depends on ESP_COREDUMP_ENABLE
+        default y
+        help
+            Enable/disable coredump logs. Logs strings from espcoredump component are
+            placed in DRAM. Disabling these helps to save ~5KB of internal memory.
+
     config ESP_COREDUMP_MAX_TASKS_NUM
         int "Maximum number of tasks"
         depends on ESP_COREDUMP_ENABLE
diff --git a/components/espcoredump/include_core_dump/esp_core_dump_types.h b/components/espcoredump/include_core_dump/esp_core_dump_types.h
index 94949467dc..869e47c5ea 100644
--- a/components/espcoredump/include_core_dump/esp_core_dump_types.h
+++ b/components/espcoredump/include_core_dump/esp_core_dump_types.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2022 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2023 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "esp_private/panic_internal.h"
 #include "core_dump_checksum.h"
 
+#if CONFIG_ESP_COREDUMP_LOGS
 #define ESP_COREDUMP_LOG( level, format, ... )  if (LOG_LOCAL_LEVEL >= level)   { esp_rom_printf(DRAM_STR(format), esp_log_early_timestamp(), (const char *)TAG, ##__VA_ARGS__); }
+#else
+#define ESP_COREDUMP_LOG( level, format, ... )  // dummy define doing nothing
+#endif
+
 #define ESP_COREDUMP_LOGE( format, ... )  ESP_COREDUMP_LOG(ESP_LOG_ERROR, LOG_FORMAT(E, format), ##__VA_ARGS__)
 #define ESP_COREDUMP_LOGW( format, ... )  ESP_COREDUMP_LOG(ESP_LOG_WARN, LOG_FORMAT(W, format), ##__VA_ARGS__)
 #define ESP_COREDUMP_LOGI( format, ... )  ESP_COREDUMP_LOG(ESP_LOG_INFO, LOG_FORMAT(I, format), ##__VA_ARGS__)