# Measurement Overhead

> The degree of performance cost that the act of measuring imposes on the system being measured.

Record: `lexicon:measurement-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-measurement-overhead

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Implementation Simplicity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/implementation-simplicity.md) and before [Model Assumptions](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/model-assumptions.md).

## Category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## In tension with

- [Profiling](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/profiling.md)
- [Profiling / Measurement Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/measurement-overhead-profiling.md)

## Linked from

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-scalability-performance-optimization.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)