Observability Noise

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:observability-noise

Severity: discouraged

Scope: observability_traceability

Formed by: Emit excessive, low-signal logs, metrics, traces, or alerts without severity, ownership, cardinality control, or actionability.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which logs, metrics and alerts are too many and too low in signal to act on.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Personal Data Oversharing and before Log-as-Control-Flow.

Refactored by

• Define Signal Quality
• Cardinality Reduction
• Runbook Owner
• Sampling and Aggregation

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Observability traceability

Negated by

• Alerting

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Core Vocabulary
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Severity levels
• The forces