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.)** In your trace viewer or console log output, you have an interesting column with different output values. Select two patterns most appropriate for analysis.

(Select all that apply.) In your trace viewer or console log output, you have an interesting column with different output values. Select two patterns most appropriate for analysis.

**(Select all that apply.)** Your OS process is supposed to have several threads, but you only see one of them at the end of the trace. Select the analysis patterns appropriate for use in this scenario.

(Select all that apply.) Your OS process is supposed to have several threads, but you only see one of them at the end of the trace. Select the analysis patterns appropriate for use in this scenario.

**(Select all that apply.)** Your tracing session pauses for some time but then resumes. What activity analysis patterns would you consider?

(Select all that apply.) Your tracing session pauses for some time but then resumes. What activity analysis patterns would you consider?

**(Select all that apply.)** Choose analysis patterns appropriate for race condition analysis.

(Select all that apply.) Choose analysis patterns appropriate for race condition analysis.

Your service collects data continuously and outputs the progress messages to the log. What analysis pattern describes this scenario?

Your service collects data continuously and outputs the progress messages to the log. What analysis pattern describes this scenario?

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