Significant, Silent, Singleton, Split, Surveyor
Discover how to identify and interpret key patterns in software trace and log messages, such as significant events, silent messages, singleton events, split messages, and surveyor indicators. Learn how these patterns help analyze software behavior, detect anomalies, and understand system processes for effective troubleshooting.
We'll cover the following...
Significant event
When looking at software traces or simply while scrolling, specific messages tend to grab our attention. We call them significant events. It could be a recorded exception (exception stack trace) or an error, basic fact, a trace message from vocabulary index, or just a trace statement that marks the start of some activity we want to explore in depth. Some examples may be a particular DLL attached to the process, the start of a coupled process, or a called function. The start of a trace and the end of it are trivial significant events. They are used to decide whether the trace is circula ...