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Modern distributed systems produce massive, heterogeneous logs essential for reliability, security, and anomaly detection. Converting these free-form messages into structured templates (log parsing) is challenging due to evolving formats…

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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

With the increasing complexity and rapid expansion of the scale of AI systems in cloud platforms, the log data generated during system operation is massive, unstructured, and semantically ambiguous, which brings great challenges to fault…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Cheng Ji , Huaiying Luo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a focal point of research across various domains, including software engineering, where their capabilities are increasingly leveraged. Recent studies have explored the integration of LLMs into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yi Wen Heng , Zeyang Ma , Zhenhao Li , Dong Jae Kim , Tse-Hsun , Chen

Log statements capture critical information for software maintenance activities such as testing, debugging, and failure analysis. Because of this importance, developers must carefully design log statements, which requires significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kazuki Kusama , Honglin Shu , Masanari Kondo , Yasutaka Kamei

Anomaly detection in computational workflows is critical for ensuring system reliability and security. However, traditional rule-based methods struggle to detect novel anomalies. This paper leverages large language models (LLMs) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hongwei Jin , George Papadimitriou , Krishnan Raghavan , Pawel Zuk , Prasanna Balaprakash , Cong Wang , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman

Logs are crucial for analyzing large-scale software systems, offering insights into system health, performance, security threats, potential bugs, etc. However, their chaotic nature$\unicode{x2013}$characterized by sheer volume, lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Dmytro Borysenkov , Adriano Vogel , Sören Henning , Esteban Perez-Wohlfeil

Automated log analysis is crucial in modern software-intensive systems for facilitating program comprehension throughout software maintenance and engineering life cycles. Existing methods perform tasks such as log parsing and log anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yilun Liu , Shimin Tao , Weibin Meng , Jingyu Wang , Wenbing Ma , Yanqing Zhao , Yuhang Chen , Hao Yang , Yanfei Jiang , Xun Chen

The rapid progress of modern computing systems has led to a growing interest in informative run-time logs. Various log-based anomaly detection techniques have been proposed to ensure software reliability. However, their implementation in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yintong Huo , Yichen Li , Yuxin Su , Pinjia He , Zifan Xie , Michael R. Lyu

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

Logging code is written by developers to capture system runtime behavior and plays a vital role in debugging, performance analysis, and system monitoring. However, defects in logging code can undermine the usefulness of logs and lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xin Wang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Logs provide first-hand information for engineers to diagnose failures in large-scale online service systems. Log parsing, which transforms semi-structured raw log messages into structured data, is a prerequisite of automated log analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yudong Liu , Xu Zhang , Shilin He , Hongyu Zhang , Liqun Li , Yu Kang , Yong Xu , Minghua Ma , Qingwei Lin , Yingnong Dang , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

Log parsing is a fundamental step for automated log analysis, which transforms raw log messages into structured formats. Existing syntax-based parsers struggle with complex logs because they lack semantic reasoning ability. Emerging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shiwen Shan , Yintong Huo , Minxing Wang , Zhiying Wu , Yuxin Su , Zibin Zheng

Automating code documentation through explanatory text can prove highly beneficial in code understanding. Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides in Natural Language Processing, especially within software engineering tasks…

Log-based anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring software system stability. However, the scarcity of labeled logs limits rapid deployment to new systems. Cross-system transfer has become an important research direction. State-of-the-art…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xinlong Zhao , Tong Jia , Minghua He , Ying Li

Time series anomaly detection is critical for supply chain management to take proactive operations, but faces challenges: classical unsupervised anomaly detection based on exploiting data patterns often yields results misaligned with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haoting Zhang , Shekhar Jain

Logs generated by large-scale software systems provide crucial information for engineers to understand the system status and diagnose problems of the systems. Log parsing, which converts raw log messages into structured data, is the first…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

System logs are a cornerstone of cybersecurity, supporting proactive breach prevention and post-incident investigations. However, analyzing vast amounts of diverse log data remains significantly challenging, as high costs, lack of in-house…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peng Cai , Reza Ryan , Nickson M. Karie

With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) and the huge amount of text they generated, it becomes more and more impractical to manually distinguish whether a text is machine-generated. Given the growing use of LLMs in social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jinyan Su , Terry Yue Zhuo , Di Wang , Preslav Nakov

Most enterprise applications use logging as a mechanism to diagnose anomalies, which could help with reducing system downtime. Anomaly detection using software execution logs has been explored in several prior studies, using both classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Nadun Wijesinghe , Hadi Hemmati