# State Tracking

> The degree to which making operations idempotent requires tracking processed keys or prior state.

Record: `lexicon:state-tracking`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-state-tracking

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Safe Retries](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/safe-retries.md) and before [All-or-Nothing State Change](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/all-or-nothing-state-change.md).

## Category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## In tension with

- [Idempotency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/idempotency.md)
- [Idempotency / State Tracking](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/idempotency-state-tracking.md)

## Linked from

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)