# Error-Budget Decisions

> The ability to decide how much risk to take by spending against a defined reliability error budget.

Record: `lexicon:error-budget-decisions`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-error-budget-decisions

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Trace Context Propagation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/trace-context-propagation.md) and before [Feature Velocity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/feature-velocity.md).

## Category

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

## Enabled by

- [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/slo-sli.md)

## Linked from

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