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Log data have facilitated various tasks of software development and maintenance, such as testing, debugging and diagnosing. Due to the unstructured nature of logs, log parsing is typically required to transform log messages into structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Junjie Huang , Yichen Li , Yintong Huo , Jiazhen Gu , Zhuangbin Chen , Jieming Zhu , Michael R. Lyu

Modern information and communication systems have become increasingly challenging to manage. The ubiquitous system logs contain plentiful information and are thus widely exploited as an alternative source for system management. As log files…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tianzhu Zhang , Han Qiu , Gabriele Castellano , Myriana Rifai , Chung Shue Chen , Fabio Pianese

Due to the complexity and size of modern software systems, the amount of logs generated is tremendous. Hence, it is infeasible to manually investigate these data in a reasonable time, thereby requiring automating log analysis to derive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Stefan Petrescu , Floris den Hengst , Alexandru Uta , Jan S. Rellermeyer

Logs are semi-structured text generated by logging statements in software source code. In recent decades, software logs have become imperative in the reliability assurance mechanism of many software systems because they are often the only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shilin He , Pinjia He , Zhuangbin Chen , Tianyi Yang , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Modern software development and operations rely on monitoring to understand how systems behave in production. The data provided by application logs and runtime environment are essential to detect and diagnose undesired behavior and improve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jeanderson Barros Cândido , Maurício Finavaro Aniche , Arie van Deursen

Logs have been widely adopted in software system development and maintenance because of the rich runtime information they record. In recent years, the increase of software size and complexity leads to the rapid growth of the volume of logs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Pinjia He , Jinyang Liu , Michael R. Lyu

Logs are an essential source of information for people to understand the running status of a software system. Due to the evolving modern software architecture and maintenance methods, more research efforts have been devoted to automated log…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xingfang Wu , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Logs are widely used to record runtime information of software systems, such as the timestamp and the importance of an event, the unique ID of the source of the log, and a part of the state of a task's execution. The rich information of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sina Gholamian , Paul A. S. Ward

AI systems produce large volumes of logs as they interact with tools and users. Analysing these logs can help understand model capabilities, propensities, and behaviours, or assess whether an evaluation worked as intended. Researchers have…

Software systems log massive amounts of data, recording important runtime information. Such logs are used, for example, for log-based anomaly detection, which aims to automatically detect abnormal behaviors of the system under analysis by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zanis Ali Khan , Donghwan Shin , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

System logs perform a critical function in software-intensive systems as logs record the state of the system and significant events in the system at important points in time. Unfortunately, log entries are typically created in an ad-hoc,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Nathan Bosch , Jan Bosch

IT environments typically have logging mechanisms to monitor system health and detect issues. However, the huge volume of generated logs makes manual inspection impractical, highlighting the importance of automated log analysis in IT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pranjal Gupta , Karan Bhukar , Harshit Kumar , Seema Nagar , Prateeti Mohapatra , Debanjana Kar

Logs are ubiquitous digital footprints, playing an indispensable role in system diagnostics, security analysis, and performance optimization. The extraction of actionable insights from logs is critically dependent on the log parsing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aoxiao Zhong , Dengyao Mo , Guiyang Liu , Jinbu Liu , Qingda Lu , Qi Zhou , Jiesheng Wu , Quanzheng Li , Qingsong Wen

Log data provides crucial insights for tasks like monitoring, root cause analysis, and anomaly detection. Due to the vast volume of logs, automated log parsing is essential to transform semi-structured log messages into structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Viktor Beck , Max Landauer , Markus Wurzenberger , Florian Skopik , Andreas Rauber

Logs have been an imperative resource to ensure the reliability and continuity of many software systems, especially large-scale distributed systems. They faithfully record runtime information to facilitate system troubleshooting and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Zhuangbin Chen , Jinyang Liu , Wenwei Gu , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Logs, being run-time information automatically generated by software, record system events and activities with their timestamps. Before obtaining more insights into the run-time status of the software, a fundamental step of log analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Cheryl Lee , Michael R. Lyu

Log parsing, the process of converting raw log messages into structured formats, is an important initial step for automated analysis of logs of large-scale software systems. Traditional log parsers often rely on heuristics or handcrafted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yi Xiao , Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

Software systems usually record important runtime information in their logs. Logs help practitioners understand system runtime behaviors and diagnose field failures. As logs are usually very large in size, automated log analysis is needed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Hetong Dai , Heng Li , Weiyi Shang , Tse-Hsun Chen , Che-Shao Chen

Software log analysis helps to maintain the health of software solutions and ensure compliance and security. Existing software systems consist of heterogeneous components emitting logs in various formats. A typical solution is to unify the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Jared Rand , Andriy Miranskyy

Logs provide users with useful insights to help with a variety of development and operations tasks. The problem is that logs are often unstructured, making their analysis a complex task. This is mainly due to the lack of guidelines and best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Issam Sedki , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj , Otmane Ait-Mohamed
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