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Gain insights into diagnostic techniques and anomaly detection with over 200 trace and log analysis patterns, applicable across various software environments, operating systems, and platforms.

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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.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Learn software trace and log analysis pattern language.

Learn to construct the explanation of the observed behavior to justify the root cause analysis and the proposed mechanism.

Learn about the different types and categories of software trace and log analysis patterns.

Learn the basics of software traces and logs such as processes, threads, components, and stack traces.

Learn software trace and log analysis pattern language.

Content

53 Lessons45 Quizzes

Getting Started

2 Lessons

Get familiar with software trace and log analysis fundamentals, patterns, and debugging techniques.

Introduction

Basic Concepts

Activity

7 Lessons

Unpack the core of software trace and log analysis patterns for diagnosing complex behaviors.

Disruption, Divergence, Overlap, Packet, Quantum

Region, Theatre, Adjoint Thread, Blackout, Braid Group

Braid, Break-in, Cord, Coupled, Delay Dynamics

Discontinuity, Fiber, Flag, Glued, Last

No, Phantom, Piecewise, Punctuated, Resume

Ruptured, Strand, Thread, Time Delta, Timeout, Weave

Quiz

Block and Data

6 Lessons

Explore patterns for software trace and log analysis, data correlation, and significant intervals.

Intra-Correlation, Macrofunction, Motif, Motivic Trace

Periodic Message, Renormalisation, Significant

Backtrace, Counter, Association, Flow, Interval

Reversal, Selector, Intrinsic ID, Missing, Random

Truncated, Signal, Visitor Trace, Watch Thread

Quiz

Error and Large Scale

7 Lessons

Apply your skills to analyze software traces, identify error patterns, and understand log behaviors.

Value, Message, Distribution, Powerset, Thread

Exception Stack, False Positive, Hidden, Periodic

Foreground, Characteristic, CoTrace, Critical, Event

Order, Phase, Explanation, Factor, Focus, Fourier

Hedges, Interspace, Layered, Transition, Poincaré

Repeat, Scale, Flux, Frames, Viewpoints, Use Case

Quiz

Message 1

6 Lessons

Dig into key patterns for effective software trace and log analysis.

Adjoint, Anchor, Causal Chains, History, Messages

Corrupt, Defamiliarizing, Dialogue, Diegetic Messages

Drone, Equivalent, Fiber, Gossip, Identification

Discourse, Incomplete, Indirect, Linked, Marked

Annotations, Change, Context, Cover, Directory

Quiz

Message 2

6 Lessons

Investigate patterns in message flows, event indicators, anomalies, and log analysis in software.

Flow, Interleave, Invariant, Pattern, Set

Milestones, Missing, Opposition, Original, Ornament

Palimpsest, Pivot, Recovered, Script, Semantic Field

Significant, Silent, Singleton, Split, Surveyor

Trace D’enfant, Path, Individuality, Translated, Ultrasimilar

Quiz

Trace as a Whole

6 Lessons

Master the steps to analyze software traces using patterns for synchronization, distribution, gaps, and metrics.

Calibrating, Circular, Combed, Distribution, Empty

Size, Guest, Minimal, Missing, No Metafile

Quotient, Singleton, Sorted, Density, Current

Acceleration, Contour, Fabric, Field, Foliation

Partition, Shape, Summary, Truncated, Visibility

Quiz

Trace Set

6 Lessons

Step through key software trace analysis patterns to enhance troubleshooting and debugging techniques.

Bifurcation, Cartesian, Correlated, Galois, Indexical

Inter-correlation, Master, Meta, News, Polytrace

Projective, Relative, Shared, Sheaf, Small DA+TA

Split, Tensor, Dimension, Extension, Homotopy

Mask, Sharding, Similarity, Unsynchronized, Working

Quiz

Vocabulary, Memory, Code and Text

5 Lessons

Unpack the core of software trace patterns, duality concepts, declarative traces, and memory log analysis.

Basic, Hidden, Indirect Facts, Constants, Vocabulary

Adjoint, Duality, Dump, Presheaf, State and Event

Declarative, Defect, Generative, Impossible

Moduli, Text

Quiz

10.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Explore the extended applications of trace analysis patterns in security and networks.

What's Next?

11.

Index

1 Lessons

Find out about a variety of software trace and log analysis patterns and concepts.

Index of Patterns

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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Dmitry Vostokov

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