# Incident Diagnosis

> The ability to diagnose the cause of an incident from a system's observable signals.

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Cost/Noise](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/cost-noise.md) and before [Logs](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/logs.md).

## Category

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

## Enabled by

- [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/observability.md)

## Linked from

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