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

**(Select all that apply.)** What are the two most important analysis patterns to consider when sending the collected trace or log for analysis? 

(Select all that apply.) What are the two most important analysis patterns to consider when sending the collected trace or log for analysis?

**(Select all that apply.)** What analysis patterns would you consider when you don’t find messages of a particular component in a trace? 

(Select all that apply.) What analysis patterns would you consider when you don’t find messages of a particular component in a trace?

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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

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