Fundamentals of Trace and Log Analysis: A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Debugging

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D. VostokovFundamentals of Trace and Log Analysishttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9896-1_1

1. Introduction

Dmitry Vostokov¹  

(1)

Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland

 

We start this chapter with a few words about the need for this book. Almost 20 years ago, I started doing Windows software diagnostics full time as a member of the technical support and escalation team at a large global software vendor. In addition to crash and hang dump analysis, the job required analysis of software traces similar to that of Process Monitor¹ log format with messages from hundreds of processes and thousands of threads totaling millions of lines (Figure 1-1). Gradually I became aware that ...