Trace and Log Analysis
This book is 100% complete
Completed on 2019-08-19
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 and image analysis (space-like narratology). This reference reprints with corrections 166 patterns originally published in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology volumes 3 - 11 and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog). It also includes an additional 11 analysis patterns from the forthcoming volume 12 bringing the total analysis pattern count to 177. Full-color diagrams accompany almost all pattern descriptions. The third edition includes 44 more patterns, additional diagrams for several old analysis pattern descriptions, updated endnote links and bibliography, two appendixes outlining the analysis pattern classification and the influence of narratology and contemporary mathematics on some pattern language names.
About the Author
About the Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface to the Third Edition 15
Preface to the Second Edition 16
Preface to the First Edition 17
About the Author 18
A 19
Abnormal Value 19
Activity Disruption 20
Activity Divergence 22
Activity Overlap 23
Activity Packet 25
Activity Quantum 26
Activity Region 27
Activity Theatre 28
Adjoint Message 29
Adjoint Space 31
Adjoint Thread of Activity 34
Anchor Messages 39
B 42
Back Trace 42
Background and Foreground Components 43
Basic Facts 46
Bifurcation Point 47
Blackout 49
Braid Group 51
Braid of Activity 52
Break-in Activity 53
C 54
Calibrating Trace 54
Cartesian Trace 55
Characteristic Message Block 56
Circular Trace 59
Combed Trace 61
Correlated Discontinuity 62
Corrupt Message 63
CoTrace (CoLog, CoData) 64
Counter Value 67
Coupled Activities 68
Critical Point 69
D 70
Data Association 70
Data Flow 71
Data Interval 72
Data Reversal 73
Data Selector 75
De Broglie Trace Duality 76
Declarative Trace 78
Defamiliarizing Effect 79
Delay Dynamics 81
Density Distribution 82
Dialogue 83
Diegetic Messages 86
Discontinuity 88
Dominant Event Sequence 90
Drone Message 91
E 92
Empty Trace 92
Equivalent Messages 93
Error Distribution 94
Error Message 95
Error Powerset 96
Error Thread 97
Event Sequence Order 98
Event Sequence Phase 99
Exception Stack Trace 101
F 103
Factor Group 103
False Positive Error 105
Fiber Bundle 106
Fiber of Activity 108
File Size 109
Focus of Tracing 110
Fourier Activity 111
G 113
Galois Trace 113
Glued Activity 114
Gossip 116
Guest Component 117
H 119
Hedges 119
Hidden Error 121
Hidden Facts 122
I 123
Identification Messages 123
Implementation Discourse 125
Impossible Trace 126
Incomplete History 127
Indexical Trace 128
Indirect Facts 129
Indirect Message 130
Inter-Correlation 135
Interspace 137
Intra-Correlation 138
Intrinsic ID 141
L 142
Last Activity 142
Layered Periodization 143
Linked Messages 146
M 148
Macrofunction 148
Marked Message 149
Master Trace 150
Message Annotations 151
Message Change 152
Message Context 154
Message Cover 155
Message Directory 156
Message Interleave 158
Message Invariant 159
Message Pattern 160
Message Set 161
Message Space 162
Meta Trace 163
Milestones 164
Minimal Trace 165
Missing Component 166
Missing Data 168
Missing Message 169
Moduli Trace 170
Motif 173
Motivic Trace 174
N 175
News Value 175
No Activity 177
No Trace Metafile 180
O 181
Opposition Messages 181
Original Message 182
Ornament 183
P 185
Palimpsest Messages 185
Periodic Error 187
Periodic Message Block 189
Phantom Activity 190
Piecewise Activity 191
Pivot Message 193
Poincaré Trace 197
Polytrace 199
Projective Space 200
Punctuated Activity 202
Q 203
Quotient Trace 203
R 204
Random Data 204
Recovered Messages 205
Relative Density 206
Renormalization 207
Resume Activity 208
Ruptured Trace 210
S 212
Script Messages 212
Sequence Repeat Anomaly 213
Shared Point 214
Sheaf of Activities 215
Significant Event 217
Significant Interval 218
Silent Messages 219
Singleton Event 221
Singleton Trace 222
Small DA+TA 223
Sparse Trace 225
Split Trace 226
State and Event 227
State Dump 229
Statement Density and Current 230
Surveyor 234
Signal 235
T 237
Tensor Trace 237
Thread of Activity 239
Time Delta 241
Time Scale 242
Timeout 243
Trace Acceleration 246
Trace Dimension 247
Trace Extension 249
Trace Field 250
Trace Frames 251
Trace Homotopy 253
Trace Mask 254
Trace Partition 256
Trace Presheaf 258
Trace Sharding 259
Trace Similarity 260
Trace String 262
Trace Viewpoints 264
Traces of Individuality 266
Translated Message 267
Truncated Data 269
Truncated Trace 270
U 271
UI Message 271
Ultrasimilar Messages 272
Unsynchronized Traces 273
Use Case Trail 275
V 276
Visibility Limit 276
Visitor Trace 277
Vocabulary Index 278
W 279
Watch Thread 279
Working Set 281
Appendix 283
Classification 283
Activity 283
Block 284
Data 284
Error 285
Large Scale 285
Message 286
Trace as a Whole 287
Trace Set 288
Vocabulary 288
Memory 289
Code 289
Narratological and Mathematical Influences 290
Index of Patterns 293
Bibliography 301
Notes 303
Authors have earned$8,179,639writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub,
earning 80% royalties while saving up to 25 million pounds of CO2 and up to 46,000 trees.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
The Leanpub 45-day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 45 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
See full terms
Free Updates. Free App. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers), EPUB (for phones and tablets), MOBI (for Kindle) and in the free Leanpub App (for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
