General trace and log analysis patterns allow the application of uniform diagnostics and anomaly detection across diverse software environments. It includes troubleshooting, debugging, describing, and explaining problems and incidents on various operating systems and platforms. It is also helpful in recording network traces, malware, general data, narratives, and text and image analysis (space-like narratology). This course, organized as a pattern language dictionary and cross-referenced with classification, explains and teaches more than 200 traces and log analysis patterns.

A Guide to Learning Software Trace and Log Analysis Patterns

You are doing root cause analysis of an incident based on collected logs and network traces. Choose the analysis pattern that applies.

You are doing root cause analysis of an incident based on collected logs and network traces. Choose the analysis pattern that applies.

You analyze network traces. Which pattern highlights the difference of network traces from software execution logs?

You analyze network traces. Which pattern highlights the difference of network traces from software execution logs?

**(Select all that apply.)** You find an interesting message to start the analysis with and find out that it is periodic. Choose the patterns to consider when limiting the analysis to only this message.

(Select all that apply.) You find an interesting message to start the analysis with and find out that it is periodic. Choose the patterns to consider when limiting the analysis to only this message.

Here's a short quiz to test your understanding.

Getting Started

Activity

Block and Data

Error and Large Scale

Message 1

Message 2

Trace as a Whole

Trace Set

Vocabulary, Memory, Code and Text

Conclusion

Index

Quiz