Analytics, Observability & Transparency
How observability works in this system — and what it is intentionally not used for.
Observability is used for system understanding — not surveillance.
The Atlas of Coordination uses analytics to understand how coordination systems behave under load, ambiguity, and structural pressure. Observability exists to describe systems — not to monitor people.
What Observability Means in the Atlas
In this system, observability is limited to understanding recurring structural conditions that shape coordination outcomes.
Observability helps surface where coordination pressure accumulates, where boundaries are repeatedly encountered, and where systems tend to degrade when clarity, authority, or sequencing breaks down.
What We Measure
- When diagnostics are started and completed
- When users encounter structural or ethical boundaries
- How often specific boundaries are reached over time
- Where boundary pressure concentrates (zones, constellations, access levels)
- Aggregate system-level interaction patterns
What We Explicitly Do Not Measure
- Individual performance, success, or failure
- Behavioral scoring, ranking, or profiling
- Productivity, efficiency, or compliance
- Intervention effectiveness or outcomes
- Any form of individual evaluation or judgment
Why This Restraint Exists
Coordination systems shape behavior. Analytics shape power.
Because metrics influence authority, this system deliberately limits what can be observed. Observability is constrained to structural description — not behavioral judgment.
If a metric implies evaluation, optimization, or enforcement, it does not belong in the Atlas.
Observability and Intervention Boundaries
Understanding a system does not confer authority to act on it.
For this reason, observability does not enable automated intervention. Insight may inform human judgment, but responsibility and sequencing always transfer back to a human decision-maker.
Accountability
All analytics definitions are documented. Changes to observability are reviewed under explicit guardrails.
Metrics that cannot be explained without moral, evaluative, or judgment-based language are intentionally excluded.