Centralized Logging

Kind: pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:centralized-logging

Severity: recommended

Scope: services, platform

Canonical: Ontology

A design pattern that ships structured logs from every instance to one aggregated store.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Centralized Authentication and before Decentralization.

Requires

• Log Aggregation

Reinforces

• Observability
• Auditability

Enables

• Cross-Service Analysis

Conflicts with

• Local-Only Logs

In tension with

• Cost/Personal Data Exposure

Tensions

• Centralized Logging / Cost/Personal Data Exposure

Violated by

• Local-Only Logs

Refactored by

• Log Aggregation
• Canonical Data Model

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Control / Coordination / Centralization

Linked from

• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Severity levels
• The resolutions