Observability / Cost/Noise

Kind: tension

Record: tension:cost-noise-observability

Canonical: Schema

"observability" (observability layer) is traded against "Cost/Noise" (observability layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Cost/Noise" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Agentic Architecture / Determinism and before Logging / Noise/Personal Data Leakage.

In tension with

• Observability
• Cost/Noise

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Resolution mechanisms