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Logging code plays an important role in software systems by recording key events and behaviors, which are essential for debugging and monitoring. However, insecure logging practices can inadvertently expose sensitive information or enable…

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Context: Logs are often the primary source of information for system developers and operations engineers to understand and diagnose the behavior of a software system in production. In many cases, logs are the only evidence available for…

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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…

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Logs are important in modern software development with runtime information. Log parsing is the first step in many log-based analyses, that involve extracting structured information from unstructured log data. Traditional log parsers face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zeyang Ma , An Ran Chen , Dong Jae Kim , Tse-Hsun Chen , Shaowei Wang

Multi-source logs provide a comprehensive overview of ongoing system activities, allowing for in-depth analysis to detect potential threats. A practical approach for threat detection involves explicit extraction of entity triples (subject,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhuoran Tan , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Shameem P. Parambath , Jeremy Singer

System logs record detailed runtime information of software systems and are used as the main data source for many tasks around software engineering. As modern software systems are evolving into large scale and complex structures, logs have…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jinyang Liu , Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Pinjia He , Zibin Zheng , Michael R. Lyu

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

Log parsing transforms log messages into structured formats, serving as the prerequisite step for various log analysis tasks. Although a variety of log parsing approaches have been proposed, their performance on complicated log data remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Zhuangbin Chen , Yichen Li , Junjie Huang , Yintong Huo , Pinjia He , Jiazhen Gu , Michael R. Lyu

Log parsing serves as an essential prerequisite for various log analysis tasks. Recent advancements in this field have improved parsing accuracy by leveraging the semantics in logs through fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Junjie Huang , Zhihan Jiang , Zhuangbin Chen , Michael R. Lyu

Security analysts routinely query system logs to detect threats and investigate incidents, but each log source uses its own semi-structured format: logs are cheap to produce, but expensive to use. The standard approach, building per-source…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Evan Luo , Julien Piet , David Wagner

Important advances in pillar domains are derived from exploiting query-logs which represents users interest and preferences. Deep understanding of users provides useful knowledge which can influence strongly decision-making. In this work,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dihia Lanasri

Logs are essential for diagnosing failures and conducting retrospective studies, leading many software organizations to retain log messages for a long time. Nevertheless, the volume of generated log data grows rapidly as software systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shiwen Shan , Yintong Huo , Hongzhan Zhong , Zhining Wang , Yuxin Su , Zibin Zheng

In the last decade, an impressive increase in software adaptions has led to a surge in log data production, making manual log analysis impractical and establishing the necessity for automated methods. Conversely, most automated analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shayan Hashemi , Mika Mäntylä

Log parsing is an essential task in log analysis, and many tools have been designed to accomplish it. Existing log parsers can be categorized into statistic-based and semantic-based approaches. In comparison to semantic-based parsers,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Qiaolin Qin , Xingfang Wu , Heng Li , Ettore Merlo

Large-scale software systems generate vast volumes of system logs that are essential for monitoring, diagnosing, and performance optimization. However, the unstructured nature and ever-growing scale of these logs present significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shu-Wei Huang , Xingfang Wu , Heng Li

Process mining has gained traction over the past decade and an impressive body of research has resulted in the introduction of a variety of process mining approaches measuring process performance. Having this set of techniques available,…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Fredrik Milani , Fabrizio M. Maggi

Logs are one of the most critical data for service management. It contains rich runtime information for both services and users. Since size of logs are often enormous in size and have free handwritten constructions, a typical log-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Shimin Tao , Weibin Meng , Yimeng Chen , Yichen Zhu , Ying Liu Chunning Du , Tao Han , Yongpeng Zhao , Xiangguang Wang , Hao Yang

We provide a detailed overview of the various approaches that were proposed to date to solve the task of Open Information Extraction. We present the major challenges that such systems face, show the evolution of the suggested approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Christina Niklaus , Matthias Cetto , André Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

A very useful technique a network administrator can use to identify problematic network behavior is careful analysis of logs of incoming and outgoing network flows. The challenge one faces when attempting to undertake this course of action,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dmitry Mogilevsky

As modern software systems continue to grow in complexity, triage has become a fundamental process in system operations and maintenance. Triage aims to efficiently prioritize, assign, and assess issues to ensure the reliability of complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yongxin Zhao , Shenglin Zhang , Yujia Wu , Yuxin Sun , Yongqian Sun , Dan Pei , Chetan Bansal , Minghua Ma