Header/Metadata Management

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Observability

Record: lexicon:header-metadata-management

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which threading correlation identifiers through headers adds handling to every call.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Context Propagation and before Request-Level Traceability.

Category

• Observability / Auditability / Traceability

In tension with

• Correlation ID
• Correlation ID / Header/Metadata Management

Linked from

• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• The resolutions