Size, Guest, Minimal, Missing, No Metafile
Discover how to evaluate software trace files by examining file size issues like circular or truncated logs, identifying guest and missing components, understanding minimal traces, and analyzing cases with no trace metafile. Gain practical pattern-based skills to troubleshoot and clarify software behavior from logs.
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File size
Trace and log analysis starts with an assessment of artifact file size, especially with multiple logging scenarios in distributed systems. If all log files are of the same size, we may have either circular traces or truncated traces. Both point to the wrong trace timing plan or simply to that they are using the default tracing tool configuration.
Guest component
Sometimes, when comparing normal, expected (working), and abnormal (non-working) traces, we can get a clue for further troubleshooting and debugging by looking at module load events. For example, when we see an unexpected module loaded in our non-working trace, its function (and sometimes even ...