@article {10.3844/jcssp.2013.74.82, article_type = {journal}, title = {Collecting Data from Running Systems}, author = {Nielsen, Jess and Almajali, Sufyan}, volume = {9}, number = {1}, year = {2013}, month = {Feb}, pages = {74-82}, doi = {10.3844/jcssp.2013.74.82}, url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2013.74.82}, abstract = {This article describes a way to build a consolidated log that can be used to facilitate the state of Windows services at runtime. It makes a side by side introduction of code instrumentation techniques and autonomic techniques that can be used to collected data from running systems in order to construct a consolidated log. The techniques try to deal with the non-standardized syntaxes and contents that come with heterogeneous logs. The collected data might be a foundation for a replacement to such logs hence the behavior can be determined by such collected data. These behaviors can be mapped to common, standardized and easy-understandable high level events that can be used as a log themselves.}, journal = {Journal of Computer Science}, publisher = {Science Publications} }