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

## Palimpsest messages
There are times when part of or the entire content of some messages have been erased or overwritten. Such messages are called **palimpsest messages**.

# Palimpsest messages
There are times when part of or the entire content of some messages have been erased or overwritten. Such messages are called **palimpsest messages**.

This lesson introduces the following analysis patterns: palimpsest messages, pivot message, recovered messages, script messages, and semantic field.

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

Palimpsest, Pivot, Recovered, Script, Semantic Field

Palimpsest messages