Causation ID / Metadata Verbosity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:causation-id-metadata-verbosity
Canonical: Schema
"causation-id" (observability layer) is traded against "Metadata Verbosity" (observability layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Metadata Verbosity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Correlation ID / Header/Metadata Management and before Distributed Tracing / Overhead/Sampling.