# Measurement Overhead

> The degree of performance cost that the act of measuring imposes on the system being measured.

Record: `lex:measurement-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-measurement-overhead

## category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## referenced-by

- [Profiling](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/profiling.md)