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Logs are ubiquitous digital footprints, playing an indispensable role in system diagnostics, security analysis, and performance optimization. The extraction of actionable insights from logs is critically dependent on the log parsing…

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Log parsing, the process of converting raw log messages into structured formats, is an important initial step for automated analysis of logs of large-scale software systems. Traditional log parsers often rely on heuristics or handcrafted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yi Xiao , Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

Log data provides crucial insights for tasks like monitoring, root cause analysis, and anomaly detection. Due to the vast volume of logs, automated log parsing is essential to transform semi-structured log messages into structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Viktor Beck , Max Landauer , Markus Wurzenberger , Florian Skopik , Andreas Rauber

Log parsing is a fundamental step in log analysis, partitioning raw logs into constant templates and dynamic variables. While recent semantic-based parsers leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit superior generalizability over…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Minxing Wang , Yintong Huo

Logs play a critical role in providing essential information for system monitoring and troubleshooting. Recently, with the success of pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Lipeng Ma , Weidong Yang , Sihang Jiang , Ben Fei , Mingjie Zhou , Shuhao Li , Mingyu Zhao , Bo Xu , Yanghua Xiao

Due to the complexity and size of modern software systems, the amount of logs generated is tremendous. Hence, it is infeasible to manually investigate these data in a reasonable time, thereby requiring automating log analysis to derive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Stefan Petrescu , Floris den Hengst , Alexandru Uta , Jan S. Rellermeyer

Logs, being run-time information automatically generated by software, record system events and activities with their timestamps. Before obtaining more insights into the run-time status of the software, a fundamental step of log analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Cheryl Lee , Michael R. Lyu

Modern distributed systems produce massive, heterogeneous logs essential for reliability, security, and anomaly detection. Converting these free-form messages into structured templates (log parsing) is challenging due to evolving formats…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Amir Shetaia , Sean Kauffman

Background: Log messages provide valuable information about the status of software systems. This information is provided in an unstructured fashion and automated approaches are applied to extract relevant parameters. To ease this process,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Merve Astekin , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Log parsing transforms log messages into structured formats, serving as a crucial step for log analysis. Despite a variety of log parsers that have been proposed, their performance on evolving log data remains unsatisfactory due to reliance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yifan Wu , Siyu Yu , Ying Li

Software systems usually record important runtime information in their logs. Logs help practitioners understand system runtime behaviors and diagnose field failures. As logs are usually very large in size, automated log analysis is needed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Hetong Dai , Heng Li , Weiyi Shang , Tse-Hsun Chen , Che-Shao Chen

Logs are extensively used during the development and maintenance of software systems. They collect runtime events and allow tracking of code execution, which enables a variety of critical tasks such as troubleshooting and fault detection.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Sasho Nedelkoski , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

Log parsing is a critical step that transforms unstructured log data into structured formats, facilitating subsequent log-based analysis. Traditional syntax-based log parsers are efficient and effective, but they often experience decreased…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zeyang Ma , Dong Jae Kim , Tse-Hsun Chen

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

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…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Fei Teng , Haoyang Li , Lei Chen

Log parsing is a critical step for automated log analysis in complex systems. Traditional heuristic-based methods offer high efficiency but are limited in accuracy due to overlooking semantic context. In contrast, recent LLM-based parsers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dongyi Fan , Suqiong Zhang , Lili He , Ming Liu , Yifan Huo

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

Automated log analysis is crucial in modern software-intensive systems for facilitating program comprehension throughout software maintenance and engineering life cycles. Existing methods perform tasks such as log parsing and log anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yilun Liu , Shimin Tao , Weibin Meng , Jingyu Wang , Wenbing Ma , Yanqing Zhao , Yuhang Chen , Hao Yang , Yanfei Jiang , Xun Chen

System logs are a critical resource for monitoring and managing distributed systems, providing insights into failures and anomalous behavior. Traditional log analysis techniques, including template-based and sequence-driven approaches,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anfeng Peng , Ajesh Koyatan Chathoth , Stephen Lee

Logs are imperative in the development and maintenance process of many software systems. They record detailed runtime information that allows developers and support engineers to monitor their systems and dissect anomalous behaviors and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Jinyang Liu , Pinjia He , Qi Xie , Zibin Zheng , Michael R. Lyu
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