Log-as-Control-Flow
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Enforcement Core
Record: architecture:log-as-control-flow
Severity: discouraged
Scope: correctness_verification, resilience_recovery
Formed by: Log errors or warnings as if logging itself handles the failure, while the system continues without recovery, propagation, or safe fallback.
Canonical: Ontology
A defect in which a failure is logged as though logging handled it, and execution continues.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Observability Noise and before Manual Runbook Dependency.