Trace, Log, Text, Narrative
Trace, Log, Text, Narrative
An Analysis Pattern Reference for Data Mining, Diagnostics, Anomaly Detection, Fourth Edition
About the Book
General trace and log analysis patterns allow the application of uniform diagnostics and anomaly detection across diverse software environments. This pattern language covers any execution artifact from a small debugging trace to a distributed log with billions of messages from hundreds of computers, thousands of software components, threads, and processes. Pattern-oriented trace and log analysis is applicable to troubleshooting and debugging Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, iOS, z/OS, and any other possible computer platform including networking and IoT. Its pattern catalog is a part of pattern-oriented software data analysis, diagnostics, anomaly detection, forensics, prognostics, root cause analysis, and debugging developed by Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org). Also, the scope of applicability of such analysis patterns is much wider than just software execution artifacts or temporal data and now includes general data, narratives, text, and image analysis (space-like narratology). This reference reprints with corrections almost 200 patterns originally published in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology volumes 3 - 13 and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog). It also includes additional 5 analysis patterns from the forthcoming volume 14 bringing the total analysis pattern count to 201. Full-color diagrams accompany almost all pattern descriptions. The fourth edition includes 24 more patterns, updated classification, the bibliography, and the list of narratological and mathematical influences.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents 3
Preface to the Fourth Edition 17
Preface to the Third Edition 18
Preface to the Second Edition 19
Preface to the First Edition 20
About the Author 21
A 23
Abnormal Value 23
Activity Disruption 24
Activity Divergence 26
Activity Overlap 27
Activity Packet 29
Activity Quantum 30
Activity Region 31
Activity Theatre 32
Adjoint Message 33
Adjoint Space 35
Adjoint Thread of Activity 38
Anchor Messages 43
B 46
Back Trace 46
Background and Foreground Components 47
Basic Facts 50
Bifurcation Point 51
Blackout 53
Braid Group 55
Braid of Activity 56
Break-in Activity 57
C 58
Calibrating Trace 58
Cartesian Trace 59
Causal Chains 60
Causal History 62
Causal Messages 63
Characteristic Message Block 64
Circular Trace 67
Combed Trace 69
Cord of Activity 70
Correlated Discontinuity 72
Corrupt Message 73
CoTrace (CoLog, CoData) 74
Counter Value 77
Coupled Activities 78
Critical Point 79
D 80
Data Association 80
Data Flow 81
Data Interval 82
Data Reversal 83
Data Selector 85
De Broglie Trace Duality 86
Declarative Trace 88
Defamiliarizing Effect 89
Defect Group 91
Delay Dynamics 92
Density Distribution 93
Dialogue 94
Diegetic Messages 97
Discontinuity 99
Dominant Event Sequence 101
Drone Message 102
E 103
Empty Trace 103
Equivalent Messages 104
Error Distribution 105
Error Message 106
Error Powerset 107
Error Thread 108
Event Sequence Order 109
Event Sequence Phase 110
Exception Stack Trace 112
Explanation Trace 114
F 115
Factor Group 115
False Positive Error 117
Fiber Bundle 118
Fiber of Activity 120
File Size 121
Flag 122
Focus of Tracing 123
Fourier Activity 124
G 126
Galois Trace 126
Generative Trace 127
Glued Activity 128
Gossip 130
Guest Component 131
H 133
Hedges 133
Hidden Error 135
Hidden Facts 136
I 137
Identification Messages 137
Implementation Discourse 139
Impossible Trace 140
Incomplete History 141
Indexical Trace 142
Indirect Facts 143
Indirect Message 144
Inter-Correlation 149
Interspace 151
Intra-Correlation 152
Intrinsic ID 155
L 156
Last Activity 156
Layered Periodization 157
Linked Messages 160
M 162
Macrofunction 162
Marked Message 163
Master Trace 164
Message Annotations 165
Message Change 166
Message Context 168
Message Cover 169
Message Directory 170
Message Flow 172
Message Interleave 173
Message Invariant 174
Message Pattern 175
Message Set 176
Message Space 177
Meta Trace 178
Milestones 179
Minimal Trace 180
Missing Component 181
Missing Data 183
Missing Message 184
Moduli Trace 185
Motif 188
Motivic Trace 189
N 190
News Value 190
No Activity 192
No Trace Metafile 195
O 196
Opposition Messages 196
Original Message 197
Ornament 198
P 200
Palimpsest Messages 200
Periodic Error 202
Periodic Message Block 204
Phantom Activity 205
Phase Transition 206
Piecewise Activity 209
Pivot Message 211
Poincaré Trace 215
Polytrace 217
Projective Space 218
Punctuated Activity 220
Q 221
Quotient Trace 221
R 222
Random Data 222
Recovered Messages 223
Relative Density 224
Renormalization 225
Resume Activity 226
Ruptured Trace 228
S 230
Script Messages 230
Sequence Repeat Anomaly 231
Semantic Field 232
Shared Point 234
Sheaf of Activities 235
Significant Event 237
Significant Interval 238
Silent Messages 239
Singleton Event 241
Singleton Trace 242
Small DA+TA 243
Sorted Trace 245
Sparse Trace 246
Split Message 247
Split Trace 249
State and Event 250
State Dump 252
Statement Density and Current 253
Strand of Activity 257
Surveyor 258
Signal 259
T 261
Tensor Trace 261
Text Trace 263
Thread of Activity 265
Time Delta 267
Time Scale 268
Timeout 269
Trace Acceleration 272
Trace Constants 273
Trace Contour 274
Trace D’Enfant 275
Trace Dimension 276
Trace Extension 278
Trace Fabric 279
Trace Field 281
Trace Flux 282
Trace Foliation 283
Trace Frames 285
Trace Homotopy 287
Trace Mask 288
Trace Partition 290
Trace Path 292
Trace Presheaf 293
Trace Shape 294
Trace Sharding 295
Trace Similarity 296
Trace String 298
Trace Summary 300
Trace Viewpoints 301
Traces of Individuality 303
Translated Message 304
Truncated Data 306
Truncated Trace 307
U 308
UI Message 308
Ultrasimilar Messages 309
Unsynchronized Traces 310
Use Case Trail 312
V 313
Visibility Limit 313
Visitor Trace 314
Vocabulary Index 315
W 316
Watch Thread 316
Weave of Activity 318
Working Set 319
Appendix 321
Classification 321
Activity 321
Block 322
Data 322
Error 323
Large Scale 323
Message 324
Trace as a Whole 325
Trace Set 326
Vocabulary 327
Memory 327
Code 327
Text 328
Narratological and Mathematical Influences 329
Index of Patterns 333
Bibliography 341
Notes 343
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