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      <year>2016</year><year>2016</year>
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    <title>Introduction</title>
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<section>
    <title>Scope</title>
    <p>The Observer application is a container including the following
    tools for tracing and investigation of distributed systems:</p>
      <list type="bulleted">
       <item>Observer</item>
       <item>Trace Tool Builder</item>
       <item>Erlang Top</item>
       <item>Crashdump Viewer</item>
     </list>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Prerequisites</title>
    <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang
      programming language.</p>
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