Lexicon

Unlinked Events

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Observability

Record: lexicon:unlinked-events

Canonical: Lexicon

Recording events with no link to their cause, so cause-and-effect chains cannot be rebuilt.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Metadata Verbosity and before Latency/Failure Root Cause Analysis.

Category

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability

Violates

  • Causality
  • Causation ID

Negated by

  • Causation ID

Linked from

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability