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Event log records all events that occur during the execution of business processes, so detecting and correcting anomalies in event log can provide reliable guarantee for subsequent process analysis. The previous works mainly include next…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ziyou Gong , Xianwen Fang , Ping Wu

Software systems often record important runtime information in system logs for troubleshooting purposes. There have been many studies that use log data to construct machine learning models for detecting system anomalies. Through our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

Anomaly detection in event logs is a promising approach for intrusion detection in enterprise networks. By building a statistical model of usual activity, it aims to detect multiple kinds of malicious behavior, including stealthy tactics,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Corentin Larroche , Johan Mazel , Stephan Clémençon

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series is an important problem across various fields such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing or physics detector monitoring. Accurately identifying when unexpected errors or faults occur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Laura Boggia , Rafael Teixeira de Lima , Bogdan Malaescu

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yuuki Yamanaka , Tomokatsu Takahashi , Takuya Minami , Yoshiaki Nakajima

Anomaly detection based on system logs plays an important role in intelligent operations, which is a challenging task due to the extremely complex log patterns. Existing methods detect anomalies by capturing the sequential dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ling Chen , Chaodu Song , Xu Wang , Dachao Fu , Feifei Li

Mining information from logs is an old and still active research topic. In recent years, with the rapid emerging of cloud computing, log mining becomes increasingly important to industry. This paper focus on one major mission of log mining:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Nan Wang , Jizhong Han , Jinyun Fang

The analysis of logs is a vital activity undertaken for fault or cyber incident detection, investigation and technical forensics analysis for system and cyber resilience. The potential application of AI algorithms for Log analysis could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jonathan Pan

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

Log analysis is an important technique that engineers use for troubleshooting faults of large-scale service-oriented systems. In this study, we propose a novel semi-supervised log-based anomaly detection approach, LogDP, which utilizes the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Bo Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar , Sha Lu

This study proposes an anomaly detection method based on the Transformer architecture with integrated multiscale feature perception, aiming to address the limitations of temporal modeling and scale-aware feature representation in cloud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lian Lian , Yilin Li , Song Han , Renzi Meng , Sibo Wang , Ming Wang

Detecting anomalous events in online computer systems is crucial to protect the systems from malicious attacks or malfunctions. System logs, which record detailed information of computational events, are widely used for system status…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Haixuan Guo , Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu

This study proposes an unsupervised anomaly detection method for distributed backend service systems, addressing practical challenges such as complex structural dependencies, diverse behavioral evolution, and the absence of labeled data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yun Zi , Ming Gong , Zhihao Xue , Yujun Zou , Nia Qi , Yingnan Deng

Computer network anomaly detection and log analysis, as an important topic in the field of network security, has been a key task to ensure network security and system reliability. First, existing network anomaly detection and log analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shuzhan Wang , Ruxue Jiang , Zhaoqi Wang , Yan Zhou

The identification of undesirable behavior in event logs is an important aspect of process mining that is often addressed by anomaly detection methods. Traditional anomaly detection methods tend to focus on statistically rare behavior and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Kiran Busch , Timotheus Kampik , Henrik Leopold

This study addresses the problem of dynamic anomaly detection in accounting transactions and proposes a real-time detection method based on a Transformer to tackle the challenges of hidden abnormal behaviors and high timeliness requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yi Wang , Ruoyi Fang , Anzhuo Xie , Hanrui Feng , Jianlin Lai

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 constitute a form of evidence signaling the operational status of software systems. Automated log anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of modern software systems. However, existing approaches face significant…

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

Logs are widely used in the development and maintenance of software systems. Logs can help engineers understand the runtime behavior of systems and diagnose system failures. For anomaly diagnosis, existing methods generally use log event…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Haitian Yang , Degang Sun , Wen Liu , Yanshu Li , Yan Wang , Weiqing Huang