# Cost/Noise

> The degree to which collecting more telemetry adds cost and noise that can obscure the signals that matter.

Record: `lexicon:cost-noise`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-cost-noise

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Retrieval Quality/Latency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/retrieval-quality-latency.md) and before [Incident Diagnosis](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/incident-diagnosis.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/observability.md)
- [Observability / Cost/Noise](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/cost-noise-observability.md)

## Linked from

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