1. A method for determining a cause of an error within a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method comprises: selecting two or more correlated error messages of a plurality of error messages; identifying two or more collection of records corresponding to the selected two or more correlated error messages, wherein a collection of records of the two or more collection of records includes: an event record including information regarding an event, wherein the event is a user access operation or a system administrative operation initiated by a device affiliated with the DSN; a first record including information regarding a dispersed storage (DS) processing module processing an event request to produce a plurality of sub-event requests, wherein the event request is regarding the event; and a plurality of records including information regarding a plurality of DS units processing the plurality of sub-event requests; and identifying a correlation cause of one or more errors corresponding to the two or more correlated error messages based on the two or more collections of records.