# Unlinked Events

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

Record: `lexicon:unlinked-events`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-unlinked-events

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Metadata Verbosity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/metadata-verbosity.md) and before [Latency/Failure Root Cause Analysis](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/latency-failure-root-cause-analysis.md).

## Category

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

## Negated by

- [Causation ID](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/causation-id.md)

## Linked from

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