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Log analysis is one of the main techniques engineers use to troubleshoot faults of large-scale software systems. During the past decades, many log analysis approaches have been proposed to detect system anomalies reflected by logs. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar

Anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the stability and reliability of web service systems. Logs and metrics contain multiple information that can reflect the system's operational state and potential anomalies. Thus, existing anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Xixuan Yang , Xin Huang , Chiming Duan , Tong Jia , Shandong Dong , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Prompt and accurate detection of system anomalies is essential to ensure the reliability of software systems. Unlike manual efforts that exploit all available run-time information, existing approaches usually leverage only a single type of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Cheryl Lee , Tianyi Yang , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Yongqiang Yang , Michael R. Lyu

Anomaly detection based on system logs plays an important role in intelligent operations, which is a challenging task due to the extremely complex log patterns. Existing methods detect anomalies by capturing the sequential dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ling Chen , Chaodu Song , Xu Wang , Dachao Fu , Feifei Li

Machine learning offers potential solutions to current issues in industrial systems in areas such as quality control and predictive maintenance, but also faces unique barriers in industrial applications. An ongoing challenge is extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

Software systems often record important runtime information in system logs for troubleshooting purposes. There have been many studies that use log data to construct machine learning models for detecting system anomalies. Through our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

Log-based anomaly detection (LogAD) is critical for maintaining the reliability and availability of large-scale online service systems. While machine learning, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs)-based methods have advanced the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Junjie Huang , Minghua He , Jinyang Liu , Yintong Huo , Domenico Bianculli , 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

Anomaly detection in event logs is a promising approach for intrusion detection in enterprise networks. By building a statistical model of usual activity, it aims to detect multiple kinds of malicious behavior, including stealthy tactics,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Corentin Larroche , Johan Mazel , Stephan Clémençon

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

Nowadays, many cities are equipped with surveillance systems and traffic control centers to monitor vehicular traffic for road safety and efficiency. The monitoring process is mostly done manually which is inefficient and expensive. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Sepehr Sabour , Sanjeev Rao , Majid Ghaderi

Log data store event execution patterns that correspond to underlying workflows of systems or applications. While most logs are informative, log data also include artifacts that indicate failures or incidents. Accordingly, log data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Max Landauer , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger

In financial field, a robust software system is of vital importance to ensure the smooth operation of financial transactions. However, many financial corporations still depend on operators to identify and eliminate the system failures when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Jingwen Wang , Jingxin Liu , Juntao Pu , Qinghong Yang , Zhongchen Miao , Jian Gao , You Song

Log anomaly detection is essential for system reliability, but it is extremely challenging to do considering it involves class imbalance. Additionally, the models trained in one domain are not applicable to other domains, necessitating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Krishna Sharma , Vivek Yelleti

Context: Ensuring high levels of dependability in modern computer-based systems has become increasingly challenging due to their complexity. Although systems are validated at design time, their behavior can be different at runtime, possibly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Francesco Vitale , Francesco Flammini , Mauro Caporuscio , Nicola Mazzocca

Semiconductor manufacturing is an extremely complex process, characterized by thousands of interdependent parameters collected across diverse tools and process steps. Multi-variate time-series (MTS) analysis has emerged as a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Bappaditya Dey , Daniel Sorensen , Minjin Hwang , Sandip Halder

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

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) log events and traces of activities during the execution of a process. Anomalies are defined as deviation or departure from the normal or common order. Anomaly detection in business process logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Ashish Sureka

Most log-based anomaly detectors assume logs are stable, though logs are often unstable due to software or environmental changes. Anomaly detection on unstable logs (ULAD) is therefore a more realistic, yet under-investigated challenge.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Fatemeh Hadadi , Qinghua Xu , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

The detection of anomalies is essential mining task for the security and reliability in computer systems. Logs are a common and major data source for anomaly detection methods in almost every computer system. They collect a range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Sasho Nedelkoski , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao