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.)** You are a security analyst and you want to verify web application logs after a recent security breach. What two specific patterns can you use here?

(Select all that apply.) You are a security analyst and you want to verify web application logs after a recent security breach. What two specific patterns can you use here?

**(Select all that apply.)** Choose the applicable analysis patterns you should use to get more details from an error message.

(Select all that apply.) Choose the applicable analysis patterns you should use to get more details from an error message.

**(Select all that apply.)** What analysis patterns can be used to detect multiple threads using a component that was designed for single-threaded use? 

(Select all that apply.) What analysis patterns can be used to detect multiple threads using a component that was designed for single-threaded use?

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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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