Software Diagnostics Library

Sometimes we have several Threads of Activity (for example, from the same process) visible for a certain period of time and then suddenly we see only one such thread till the end of a trace (or even none). This may be an indication of an application hang or some other abnormal behaviour if several active threads doing logging are normal. If we consider such activities (including Adjoint Threads) as vectors running through some temporal “surface” we can use an analogy of a divergence and call this analysis pattern Activity Divergence:

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