# Anonymous Flow

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

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Untracked Mutation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/untracked-mutation.md) and before [End-to-End Causality](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/end-to-end-causality.md).

## Category

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

## Negated by

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

## Linked from

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