# Opaque Distributed Calls

> Calls crossing service boundaries with no tracing, so a request's path and bottlenecks are invisible.

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

## category

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

## referenced-by

- [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/distributed-tracing.md)