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

## Implementation discourse
If we look at any non-trivial trace, we see different **implementation discourses**. Components are written in various languages and adhere to different runtime environments, binary models, and interface frameworks. All these implementation variations influence the structure, syntax, and semantics of trace messages. For example, `.NET` debugging traces differ from file system driver or COM debugging messages. For this reason, we establish the new field of software trace linguistics as a science of software trace languages. Some parallels can be drawn here with software linguistics (the science of software languages). 

# Implementation discourse
If we look at any non-trivial trace, we see different **implementation discourses**. Components are written in various languages and adhere to different runtime environments, binary models, and interface frameworks. All these implementation variations influence the structure, syntax, and semantics of trace messages. For example, `.NET` debugging traces differ from file system driver or COM debugging messages. For this reason, we establish the new field of software trace linguistics as a science of software trace languages. Some parallels can be drawn here with software linguistics (the science of software languages). 

This lesson introduces the following analysis patterns: implementation discourse, incomplete history, indirect message, linked messages, and marked messages.

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

Discourse, Incomplete, Indirect, Linked, Marked

Implementation discourse