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

## What is this course about?
The primary goal of this course is to learn software trace and log analysis pattern language. The ultimate goal of any trace and log analysis is to construct the explanation of the observed behavior to justify the root cause analysis and the proposed mechanism. In subsequent chapters, we will learn about more than 200 software trace and log analysis patterns classified into several categories and arranged as a cross-referenced dictionary. Some examples are Windows-specific, although the pattern language we use is general and can also be used for other operating systems, such as Linux and Mac OS X.

We will review basic concepts related to software traces and logs. These concepts include: <br>
* Processes
* Threads
* Components (or modules)
* Source code files
* Source code or API functions
* Stack traces (or backtraces)

# What is this course about?
The primary goal of this course is to learn software trace and log analysis pattern language. The ultimate goal of any trace and log analysis is to construct the explanation of the observed behavior to justify the root cause analysis and the proposed mechanism. In subsequent chapters, we will learn about more than 200 software trace and log analysis patterns classified into several categories and arranged as a cross-referenced dictionary. Some examples are Windows-specific, although the pattern language we use is general and can also be used for other operating systems, such as Linux and Mac OS X.

We will review basic concepts related to software traces and logs. These concepts include: <br>
* Processes
* Threads
* Components (or modules)
* Source code files
* Source code or API functions
* Stack traces (or backtraces)

This lesson provides an introduction to the course.

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

Introduction

What is this course about?