Notederror

Notederror is a concept used in software engineering and information systems to describe an error condition that is acknowledged and logged by a system but does not prevent continued operation. It is typically distinguished from fatal errors or unhandled exceptions by its non-disruptive nature and its presence mainly in diagnostic logs and historical records. In many error taxonomies, a notederror corresponds to a warning-level event, a deprecated usage notice, or a non-critical input anomaly that the system can recover from automatically or handle gracefully.

Origin and usage: The term appears in internal documentation, ticketing systems, and academic discussions about error handling as a means to classify recurring, low-severity events that deserve tracking without prompting immediate user-facing failures. The coinage is a combination of "noted" and "error," signaling that the event has been observed and logged.

Rationale and interpretation: Employing a notederror category helps teams reduce alert fatigue by filtering non-urgent issues from active incident pipelines while still preserving data for trend analysis and root-cause investigations. Proper guidelines usually accompany the label, specifying criteria for when an event should be tagged as notederror and how long it should remain in logs.

Limitations: Notederror is not a universally standardized term; its meaning and handling can vary by organization or toolchain. Some teams may use alternative labels such as warning, informational error, or non-fatal error to convey similar concepts.

See also: Error logging, warning level, non-fatal error, exception handling, alert fatigue.