TY  - JOUR
AU  - Nielsen, Jess 
AU  - Almajali, Sufyan 
PY  - 2013
TI  - Collecting Data from Running Systems
JF  - Journal of Computer Science
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.3844/jcssp.2013.74.82
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2013.74.82
AB  - 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.