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Cloud computing systems fail in complex and unforeseen ways due to unexpected combinations of events and interactions among hardware and software components. These failures are especially problematic when they are silent, i.e., not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

Modern configurable systems offer customization via intricate configuration spaces, yet such flexibility introduces pervasive configuration-related issues such as misconfigurations and latent softwarebugs. Existing diagnosability supports…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shiwen Shan , Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Zhining Wang , Dan Li , Zibin Zheng

Identifying the failure modes of cloud computing systems is a difficult and time-consuming task, due to the growing complexity of such systems, and the large volume and noisiness of failure data. This paper presents a novel approach for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

With the increasing prevalence of scalable file systems in the context of High Performance Computing (HPC), the importance of accurate anomaly detection on runtime logs is increasing. But as it currently stands, many state-of-the-art…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Chris Egersdoerfer , Dong Dai , Di 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

Cloud computing systems fail in complex and unexpected ways due to unexpected combinations of events and interactions between hardware and software components. Fault injection is an effective means to bring out these failures in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

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

Due to the complexity of modern IT services, failures can be manifold, occur at any stage, and are hard to detect. For this reason, anomaly detection applied to monitoring data such as logs allows gaining relevant insights to improve IT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Thorsten Wittkopp , Dominik Scheinert , Philipp Wiesner , Alexander Acker , Odej Kao

Recent years have witnessed impressive robotic manipulation systems driven by advances in imitation learning and generative modeling, such as diffusion- and flow-based approaches. As robot policy performance increases, so does the…

Automatic log file analysis enables early detection of relevant incidents such as system failures. In particular, self-learning anomaly detection techniques capture patterns in log data and subsequently report unexpected log event…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Max Landauer , Sebastian Onder , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger

With the increasing complexity and scope of software systems, their dependability is crucial. The analysis of log data recorded during system execution can enable engineers to automatically predict failures at run time. Several Machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Fatemeh Hadadi , Joshua H. Dawes , Donghwan Shin , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

In order to plan for failure recovery, the designers of cloud systems need to understand how their system can potentially fail. Unfortunately, analyzing the failure behavior of such systems can be very difficult and time-consuming, due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella , Nematollah Bidokhti

Within today's large-scale systems, one anomaly can impact millions of users. Detecting such events in real-time is essential to maintain the quality of services. It allows the monitoring team to prevent or diminish the impact of a failure.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arthur Vervaet

Logs are imperative in the maintenance of online service systems, which often encompass important information for effective failure mitigation. While existing anomaly detection methodologies facilitate the identification of anomalous logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Junjie Huang , Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Yintong Huo , Jiazhen Gu , Zhuangbin Chen , Cong Feng , Hui Dong , Zengyin Yang , Michael R. Lyu

Log-based software reliability maintenance systems are crucial for sustaining stable customer experience. However, existing deep learning-based methods represent a black box for service providers, making it impossible for providers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Minghua He , Tong Jia , Chiming Duan , Pei Xiao , Lingzhe Zhang , Kangjin Wang , Yifan Wu , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Software logs record system activities, aiding maintainers in identifying the underlying causes for failures and enabling prompt mitigation actions. However, maintainers need to inspect a large volume of daily logs to identify the anomalous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yintong Huo , Cheryl Lee , Yuxin Su , Shiwen Shan , Jinyang Liu , Michael R. Lyu

Anomalies or failures in large computer systems, such as the cloud, have an impact on a large number of users that communicate, compute, and store information. Therefore, timely and accurate anomaly detection is necessary for reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Harold Ott , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Sasho Nedelkoski , Odej Kao

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

With increasing scale and complexity of cloud operations, automated detection of anomalies in monitoring data such as logs will be an essential part of managing future IT infrastructures. However, many methods based on artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Dominik Scheinert , Alexander Acker

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
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