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Event logs are widely used for anomaly detection and prediction in complex systems. Existing log-based anomaly detection methods usually consist of four main steps: log collection, log parsing, feature extraction, and anomaly detection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhong Li , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Serverless computing has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

Anomaly detection is a crucial and challenging subject that has been studied within diverse research areas. In this work, we explore the task of log anomaly detection (especially computer system logs and user behavior logs) by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yicheng Guo , Yujin Wen , Congwei Jiang , Yixin Lian , Yi Wan

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

Logs play a crucial role in system monitoring and debugging by recording valuable system information, including events and states. Although various methods have been proposed to detect anomalies in log sequences, they often overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yufei Li , Yanchi Liu , Haoyu Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Wei Cheng , Yuncong Chen , Wenchao Yu , Haifeng Chen , Cong Liu

Industrial control applications require detecting system anomalies as accurately and quickly as possible to enable prompt maintenance. In this context, it is common to consider several possible plant models, each linked to a different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Alejandro Penacho Riveiros , Matthieu Barreau , Nicola Bastianello

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

Organizations rely heavily on time series metrics to measure and model key aspects of operational and business performance. The ability to reliably detect issues with these metrics is imperative to identifying early indicators of major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Sayan Chakraborty , Smit Shah , Kiumars Soltani , Anna Swigart , Luyao Yang , Kyle Buckingham

Source data for computer network security analysis takes different forms (alerts, incidents, logs) and each source may be voluminous. Due to the challenge this presents for data management, this has often lead to security stovepipe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 William Yurcik , Cristina Abad , Ragib Hasan , Moazzam Saleem , Shyama Sridharan

Observability in cloud infrastructure is critical for service providers, driving the widespread adoption of anomaly detection systems for monitoring metrics. However, existing systems often struggle to simultaneously achieve explainability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yile Gu , Yifan Xiong , Jonathan Mace , Yuting Jiang , Yigong Hu , Baris Kasikci , Peng Cheng

This paper proposes a framework for time series generation built to investigate anomaly detection in cloud microservices. In the field of cloud computing, ensuring the reliability of microservices is of paramount concern and yet a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Mohamed Allam , Noureddine Boujnah , Noel E. O'Connor , Mingming Liu

Microservice systems (MSS) have become a predominant architectural style for cloud services. Yet the community still lacks high-quality, publicly available datasets for anomaly detection (AD) and root cause analysis (RCA) in MSS. Most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ke Ping , Hamza Bin Mazhar , Yuqing Wang , Ying Song , Mika V. Mäntylä

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

In response to the demand for higher computational power, the number of computing nodes in high performance computers (HPC) increases rapidly. Exascale HPC systems are expected to arrive by 2020. With drastic increase in the number of HPC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Siavash Ghiasvand , Florina M. Ciorba

Log analysis is one of the main techniques that engineers use for troubleshooting large-scale software systems. Over the years, many supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised log analysis methods have been proposed to detect system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar

Nowadays large computers extensively output logs to record the runtime status and it has become crucial to identify any suspicious or malicious activities from the information provided by the realtime logs. Thus, fast log anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yifei Lin , Hanqiu Deng , Xingyu Li

Software and System logs record runtime information about processes executing within a system. These logs have become the most critical and ubiquitous forms of observability data that help developers understand system behavior, monitor…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Qian Cheng , Amrita Saha , Wenzhuo Yang , Chenghao Liu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven Hoi

This article introduces a novel method for detecting anomalies within log data from control system nodes at the European XFEL accelerator. Effective anomaly detection is crucial for providing operators with a clear understanding of each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Antonin Sulc , Annika Eichler , Tim Wilksen

In large IT systems, software deployment is a crucial process in online services as their code is regularly updated. However, a faulty code change may degrade the target service's performance and cause cascading outages in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jingchao Ni , Gauthier Guinet , Peihong Jiang , Laurent Callot , Andrey Kan

Log anomaly detection is a critical task for system operations and security assurance. However, in networked systems at scale, log data are generated at massive scale while instance-level annotations are prohibitively expensive, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yutszyuk Wong , Wentai Wu , Yuen-Ying Yeung , Weiwei Lin