# Observability / Auditability / Traceability > Every term in this category is listed as one record, with its kind, its definition and its aliases, the principles whose relations name it, the principle or… Page: Ontology · Lexicon Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability Every term in this category is listed as one record, with its kind, its definition and its aliases, the principles whose relations name it, the principle or contract that carries the same name where one exists, and the layer its category belongs to. ### Accountability - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to attribute every consequential action to the actor responsible for it. Referenced by [Auditability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/auditability.md) ### Action - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A field of an audit record identifying the operation that was performed. Referenced by [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) ### Actor - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A field of an audit record identifying who or what performed an action. Referenced by [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) ### Alert Fatigue - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which too many alerts desensitize responders, so the ones that matter are ignored. Referenced by [Alerting](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/alerting.md) ### Alert Noise - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which monitoring many signals generates alerts that drown out the meaningful ones. Referenced by [Monitoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/monitoring.md) ### Anonymous Flow - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Data or requests flowing through a system with no identifiers, so their path cannot be reconstructed. Referenced by [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/traceability.md) ### At-a-Glance System Health - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to see a system's overall health at a glance from a consolidated visual display. Referenced by [Dashboards](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dashboards.md) ### Audit Trail - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A chronological record linking each event to the one that caused it. Referenced by [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causation-id.md) ### Blind Operation - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Running a system in production with no monitoring, so problems are noticed only when users report them. Referenced by [Monitoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/monitoring.md) ### Cause-Effect Reconstruction - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to reconstruct which event triggered which by following causation identifiers. Referenced by [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causation-id.md) ### Context Propagation - Kind: [constraint](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/constraint.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The requirement that request context be carried across service boundaries so related calls can be correlated. Referenced by [Correlation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/correlation-id.md) ### Cost/Noise - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which collecting more telemetry adds cost and noise that can obscure the signals that matter. Referenced by [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/observability.md) ### Dashboard Sprawl - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which unchecked creation of dashboards scatters attention across too many redundant views. Referenced by [Dashboards](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dashboards.md) ### End-to-End Causality - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to follow a request's cause-and-effect chain across every component it touches. Referenced by [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/traceability.md) ### Error-Budget Decisions - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to decide how much risk to take by spending against a defined reliability error budget. Referenced by [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/slo-sli.md) ### Event Metadata - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Descriptive fields attached to an event, such as its identifiers, timestamps, and causation links. Referenced by [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causation-id.md) ### Failure Detection - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to detect that a system has failed or degraded by watching its monitored signals. Referenced by [Monitoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/monitoring.md) ### Feature Velocity - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which holding to strict reliability targets limits how fast new features can ship. Referenced by [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/slo-sli.md) ### Forensics - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to reconstruct after the fact what happened from an immutable audit record. Referenced by [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) ### Header/Metadata Management - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which threading correlation identifiers through headers adds handling to every call. Referenced by [Correlation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/correlation-id.md) ### Incident Analysis - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to reconstruct and analyze an incident from the events a system logged. Referenced by [Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/logging.md) ### Incident Diagnosis - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to diagnose the cause of an incident from a system's observable signals. Referenced by [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/observability.md) ### Incident Response - Kind: [activity](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/activity.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Detecting, triaging, and resolving an operational incident once an alert fires. Referenced by [Alerting](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/alerting.md) ### Latency/Failure Root Cause Analysis - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to pinpoint which service caused a request's latency or failure by tracing it across hops. Referenced by [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/distributed-tracing.md) ### Log-Grep-Only Diagnosis - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Diagnosing problems solely by grepping raw logs, with no aggregated view of system health. Referenced by [Dashboards](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dashboards.md) ### Logs - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A record of discrete, timestamped events a system emits about what it did. Referenced by [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/observability.md) ### Logs/Traces - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The combined log and trace records that let a request be followed from end to end. Referenced by [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/traceability.md) ### Metadata Propagation Overhead - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which carrying trace metadata through every call adds size and processing cost. Referenced by [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/traceability.md) ### Metadata Verbosity - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which stamping every event with causation metadata makes the event payload verbose. Referenced by [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causation-id.md) ### Noise/Personal Data Leakage - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which verbose logging adds noise and risks leaking personal or sensitive data. Referenced by [Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/logging.md) ### Objective Reliability Targets - Kind: [constraint](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/constraint.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The requirement that reliability be expressed as objective, measurable targets rather than vague aspirations. Referenced by [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/slo-sli.md) ### Opaque Distributed Calls - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Calls crossing service boundaries with no tracing, so a request's path and bottlenecks are invisible. Referenced by [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/distributed-tracing.md) ### Opaque Mutation - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Changing state with no record of who changed what or when, so the change cannot be audited. Referenced by [Auditability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/auditability.md) ### Opaque System - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A system that exposes no usable signals about its internal state, so failures cannot be understood from outside. Referenced by [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/observability.md) ### Overhead/Sampling - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which tracing every request adds overhead, forcing sampling that can miss rare cases. Referenced by [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/distributed-tracing.md) ### Privacy - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which a system limits the collection and exposure of personal or sensitive information. Referenced by [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) ### Request-Level Traceability - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to trace all work belonging to one request by a shared correlation identifier. Referenced by [Correlation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/correlation-id.md) ### Storage/Privacy - Kind: [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The degree to which retaining a full audit history grows storage and raises privacy concerns. Referenced by [Auditability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/auditability.md) ### Structured Events - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Log entries emitted as structured, machine-parsable records rather than free-form text. Referenced by [Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/logging.md) ### Target - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A field of an audit record identifying the resource an action was performed on. Referenced by [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) ### Timely Intervention - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to intervene on a problem quickly by being alerted the moment it arises. Referenced by [Alerting](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/alerting.md) ### Timestamp - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A field of an audit record marking when an action occurred. Referenced by [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) ### Trace Context Propagation - Kind: [constraint](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/constraint.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The requirement that trace identifiers be propagated across every hop of a distributed request. Referenced by [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/distributed-tracing.md) ### Traces - Kind: [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition A record of the path and timing of a request as it moves through a system's components. Referenced by [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/observability.md) ### Trend Visibility - Kind: [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition The ability to see how a metric is trending over time from a visualized history. Referenced by [Dashboards](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dashboards.md) ### Uncorrelated Events - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Emitting events with no shared identifier, so those belonging to one request cannot be tied together. Referenced by [Correlation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/correlation-id.md) ### Unlinked Events - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Recording events with no link to their cause, so cause-and-effect chains cannot be rebuilt. Referenced by [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causation-id.md) ### Untracked Mutation - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Mutating state without writing an audit entry, so the change leaves no trace. Referenced by [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) ### Vague Reliability Goals - Kind: [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - Category: [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lex-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md) - Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) Details Definition Stating reliability aims in vague, unmeasurable terms, so no check can tell whether they are met. Referenced by [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/slo-sli.md) ## Links to - [capability](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/capability.md) - [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md) - [Auditability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/auditability.md) - [artifact](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/artifact.md) - [Audit Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/audit-logging.md) - [quality-attribute](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/quality-attribute.md) - [Alerting](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/alerting.md) - [Monitoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/monitoring.md) - [anti-pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/anti-pattern.md) - [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/traceability.md) - [Dashboards](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dashboards.md) - [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causation-id.md) - [constraint](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/constraint.md) - [Correlation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/correlation-id.md) - [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/observability.md) - [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/slo-sli.md) - [Logging](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/logging.md) - [activity](https://banes-lab.com/records/kind/activity.md) - [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/distributed-tracing.md)