# Anonymous Flow

> Data or requests flowing through a system with no identifiers, so their path cannot be reconstructed.

Record: `lex:anonymous-flow`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-anonymous-flow

## category

- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/observability-auditability-traceability.md)

## referenced-by

- [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/traceability.md)