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Context. Microservice-based systems have gained significant attention over the past years. A critical factor for understanding and analyzing the behavior of these systems is the collection of monitoring data such as logs, metrics, and…

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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…

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Effective alert diagnosis is essential for ensuring the reliability of large-scale online service systems. However, on-call engineers are often burdened with manually inspecting massive volumes of logs to identify root causes. While various…

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Logging is a significant programming practice. Due to the highly transactional nature of modern software applications, massive amount of logs are generated every day, which may overwhelm developers. Logging information overload can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yiming Tang , Allan Spektor , Raffi Khatchadourian , Mehdi Bagherzadeh

Log analysis and monitoring are essential aspects in software maintenance and identifying defects. In particular, the temporal nature and vast size of log data leads to an interesting and important research question: How can logs be…

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Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to effectively learn to use third-party libraries or software services. Thus, many practitioners and researchers have looked for ways to create effective…

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Modern computing systems, such as HDFS and Spark, produce vast quantities of logs that developers use for tasks like anomaly detection and error analysis. To simplify log analysis, template generation methods have been proposed to…

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Software logs, generated during the runtime of software systems, are essential for various development and analysis activities, such as anomaly detection and failure diagnosis. However, the presence of sensitive information in these logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Roozbeh Aghili , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Writing logging messages is a well-established conventional programming practice, and it is of vital importance for a wide variety of software development activities. The logging mechanism in Solidity programming is enabled by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Lantian Li , Yejian Liang , Zhihao Liu , Zhongxing Yu

The rapid progress of modern computing systems has led to a growing interest in informative run-time logs. Various log-based anomaly detection techniques have been proposed to ensure software reliability. However, their implementation in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yintong Huo , Yichen Li , Yuxin Su , Pinjia He , Zifan Xie , Michael R. Lyu

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…

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The coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have opened up new opportunities for automatic statistical analysis in machine learning and data science. However, before their widespread adoption, it is crucial to assess the…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-26 Xinyi Song , Lina Lee , Kexin Xie , Xueying Liu , Xinwei Deng , Yili Hong

Many software analysis methods have come to rely on machine learning approaches. Code segmentation - the process of decomposing source code into meaningful blocks - can augment these methods by featurizing code, reducing noise, and limiting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Jacob Dormuth , Ben Gelman , Jessica Moore , David Slater

Log data plays a critical role in observability, debugging, and performance monitoring in modern cloud-native systems. In small and early-stage cloud deployments, however, log retention policies are frequently configured far beyond…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jody Almaida Putra

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, the need for up-to-date and well-organized benchmarks becomes increasingly critical. However, many existing datasets are scattered, difficult to manage, and make it challenging to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Eunsu Kim , Haneul Yoo , Guijin Son , Hitesh Patel , Amit Agarwal , Alice Oh

Log anomaly detection, which is critical for identifying system failures and preempting security breaches, detects irregular patterns within large volumes of log data, and impacts domains such as service reliability, performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shenglin Zhang , Ziang Chen , Zijing Que , Yilun Liu , Yongqian Sun , Sicheng Wei , Dan Pei , Hailin Li

Log parsing, a vital task for interpreting the vast and complex data produced within software architectures faces significant challenges in the transition from academic benchmarks to the industrial domain. Existing log parsers, while highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wei Zhang , Xianfu Cheng , Yi Zhang , Jian Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Zhoujun Li , Xiaolin Yin , Xiangyuan Guan , Xu Shi , Liangfan Zheng , Bo Zhang

Execution logs are a crucial medium as they record runtime information of software systems. Although extensive logs are helpful to provide valuable details to identify the root cause in postmortem analysis in case of a failure, this may…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Sina Gholamian , Paul A. S. Ward

Parser-based log compression, which separates static templates from dynamic variables, is a promising approach to exploit the unique structure of log data. However, its performance on complex production logs is often unsatisfactory. This…

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