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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…

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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…

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Log anomaly detection has become a common practice for software engineers to analyze software system behavior. Despite significant research efforts in log anomaly detection over the past decade, it remains unclear what are practitioners'…

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Software product lines (SPL) have emerged as a pivotal paradigm in software engineering, enabling the efficient development of variant-rich software systems. Consistently updating these systems, often through over-the-air updates, enables…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Johannes Stümpfle , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich

The scarcity of high-quality public log datasets has become a critical bottleneck in advancing log-based anomaly detection techniques. Current datasets exhibit three fundamental limitations: (1) incomplete event coverage, (2) artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xinyu Li , Yingtong Huo , Chenxi Mao , Shiwen Shan , Yuxin Su , Dan Li , Zibin Zheng

Recent work pairs LLMs with evolutionary search to iteratively generate, modify, and select code using task-specific feedback. These systems have produced strong results in mathematical discovery and algorithm design, yet a fundamental…

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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

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

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 the evolving IT landscape, stability and reliability of systems are essential, yet their growing complexity challenges DevOps teams in implementation and maintenance. Log analysis, a core element of AIOps, provides critical insights into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Thorsten Wittkopp

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

Any modern system writes events into files, called log files. Those contain crucial information which are subject to various analyses. Examples range from cybersecurity, intrusion detection over usage analyses to trouble shooting. Before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Nadine Ruecker , Andreas Maier

Software logs are messages recorded during the execution of a software system that provide crucial run-time information about events and activities. Although software logs have a critical role in software maintenance and operation tasks,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Roozbeh Aghili , Xingfang Wu , Foutse Khomh , Heng Li

Log-system is an important mechanism for recording the runtime status and events of Web service systems, and anomaly detection in logs is an effective method of detecting problems. However, manual anomaly detection in logs is inefficient,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jiawei Lu , Chengrong Wu

Modern software systems produce vast amounts of logs, serving as an essential resource for anomaly detection. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) tools have been developed to automate the process of log-based anomaly detection…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuqing Wang , Mika V. Mäntylä , Jesse Nyyssölä , Ke Ping , Liqiang Wang

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

Logs are widely used to record runtime information of software systems, such as the timestamp and the importance of an event, the unique ID of the source of the log, and a part of the state of a task's execution. The rich information of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sina Gholamian , Paul A. S. Ward

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

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

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