# Architecture principles whose category is Observability / Auditability / Traceability

> 12 records

This index as JSON: https://banes-lab.com/json/api/facets/architecture/category/observability-auditability-traceability

## Entries

- [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/observability.md): The degree to which a system's internal behavior in production can be inferred from the logs, metrics and traces it emits.
- [Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/logging.md): A mechanism that records structured events with their context as the code runs.
- [Monitoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/monitoring.md): A mechanism that collects metrics about resources and service levels over time and compares them with thresholds.
- [Alerting](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/alerting.md): A mechanism that notifies an on-call responder when a monitored condition holds for longer than its threshold.
- [Auditability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/auditability.md): The degree to which each sensitive action can be traced afterwards to its actor, target, time and reason.
- [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/audit-logging.md): A mechanism that appends an immutable record of each sensitive operation, naming the actor, the action, the target and the time.
- [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/traceability.md): The degree to which a request, workflow or change can be followed end to end through correlated records.
- [Correlation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/correlation-id.md): A mechanism that attaches one identifier to a request and carries it through every call, message and log line the request causes.
- [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/causation-id.md): A mechanism that stamps each event with the identifier of the event that caused it.
- [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/distributed-tracing.md): A mechanism that propagates a trace context across service calls and records each call as a timed span of one trace.
- [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/slo-sli.md): A rule or precondition that a service's reliability is stated as a measured indicator with an objective and an error budget over a window.
- [Dashboards](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/dashboards.md): Descriptive data about a system's key signals, arranged as panels that show health and trends at a glance.