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Log files record computational events that reflect system state and behavior, making them a primary source of operational insights in modern computer systems. Automated anomaly detection on logs is therefore critical, yet most established…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Simon Dietz , Kai Klede , An Nguyen , Bjoern M Eskofier

With the growth of online services, IoT devices, and DevOps-oriented software development, software log anomaly detection is becoming increasingly important. Prior works mainly follow a traditional four-staged architecture (Preprocessor,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shayan Hashemi , Mika Mäntylä

System logs are some of the most important information for the maintenance of software systems, which have become larger and more complex in recent years. The goal of log-based anomaly detection is to automatically detect system anomalies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yuuki Yamanaka , Tomokatsu Takahashi , Takuya Minami , Yoshiaki Nakajima

System logs play a critical role in maintaining the reliability of software systems. Fruitful studies have explored automatic log-based anomaly detection and achieved notable accuracy on benchmark datasets. However, when applied to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jinyang Liu , Junjie Huang , Yintong Huo , Zhihan Jiang , Jiazhen Gu , Zhuangbin Chen , Cong Feng , Minzhi Yan , Michael R. Lyu

Fully supervised log anomaly detection methods suffer the heavy burden of annotating massive unlabeled log data. Recently, many semi-supervised methods have been proposed to reduce annotation costs with the help of parsed templates.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hongcheng Guo , Yuhui Guo , Renjie Chen , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Zhoujun Li , Tieqiao Zheng , Weichao Hou , Liangfan Zheng , Bo Zhang

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

Log-based anomaly detection is fundamentally constrained by training data sparsity. Our empirical study reveals that public benchmark datasets cover less than 10% of source code log templates. Consequently, models frequently misclassify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinyu Li , Yintong Huo , Chenxi Mao , Shiwen Shan , Yuxin Su , Yanlin Wang , Zibin Zheng

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) describes the process of maintaining and operating large IT systems using diverse AI-enabled methods and tools for, e.g., anomaly detection and root cause analysis, to support the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Gjorgji Madjarov , Sasho Nedelkoski , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

The system log generated in a computer system refers to large-scale data that are collected simultaneously and used as the basic data for determining errors, intrusion and abnormal behaviors. The aim of system log anomaly detection is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yukyung Lee , Jina Kim , Pilsung Kang

Log anomaly detection is crucial for preserving the security of operating systems. Depending on the source of log data collection, various information is recorded in logs that can be considered log modalities. In light of this intuition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mohammad Nasirzadeh , Jafar Tahmoresnezhad , Parviz Rashidi-Khazaee

Log-based anomaly detection is critical for ensuring the stability and reliability of web systems. One of the key problems in this task is the lack of sufficient labeled logs, which limits the rapid deployment in new systems. Existing works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xinlong Zhao , Tong Jia , Minghua He , Xixuan Yang , Ying Li

Log data are generated from logging statements in the source code, providing insights into the execution processes of software applications and systems. State-of-the-art log-based anomaly detection approaches typically leverage deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xingfang Wu , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Software-intensive systems produce logs for troubleshooting purposes. Recently, many deep learning models have been proposed to automatically detect system anomalies based on log data. These models typically claim very high detection…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

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

Mining information from logs is an old and still active research topic. In recent years, with the rapid emerging of cloud computing, log mining becomes increasingly important to industry. This paper focus on one major mission of log mining:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Nan Wang , Jizhong Han , Jinyun Fang

Log anomaly detection refers to the task that distinguishes the anomalous log messages from normal log messages. Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are becoming popular for log anomaly detection because of their superb ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zhuoyi Yang , Ian G. Harris

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

Log anomaly detection (LAD) is essential to ensure safe and stable operation of software systems. Although current LAD methods exhibit significant potential in addressing challenges posed by unstable log events and temporal sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiyu Tian , Mingchu Li , Zumin Wang , Liming Chen , Jing Qin , Runfa Zhang

Logs constitute a form of evidence signaling the operational status of software systems. Automated log anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of modern software systems. However, existing approaches face significant…

Log anomaly detection plays a critical role in ensuring the stability and reliability of software systems. However, existing approaches rely on large amounts of labeled log data, which poses significant challenges in real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinlong Zhao , Tong Jia , Minghua He , Yihan Wu , Ying Li , Gang Huang