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Log messages record important system runtime information and are useful for detecting anomalous behaviors and managing modern software systems. Many supervised and unsupervised learning methods have been proposed recently for log-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yiyuan Xiong , Shaofeng Cai

Log anomaly detection (LAD) is essential to ensure safe and stable operation of software systems. Although current LAD methods exhibit significant potential in addressing challenges posed by unstable log events and temporal sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiyu Tian , Mingchu Li , Zumin Wang , Liming Chen , Jing Qin , Runfa Zhang

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

The management of modern IT systems poses unique challenges, necessitating scalability, reliability, and efficiency in handling extensive data streams. Traditional methods, reliant on manual tasks and rule-based approaches, prove…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Youcef Remil , Anes Bendimerad , Romain Mathonat , Mehdi Kaytoue

Log-based anomaly detection is a essential task for ensuring the reliability and performance of software systems. However, the performance of existing anomaly detection methods heavily relies on labeling, while labeling a large volume of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chiming Duan , Minghua He , Pei Xiao , Tong Jia , Xin Zhang , Zhewei Zhong , Xiang Luo , Yan Niu , Lingzhe Zhang , Yifan Wu , Siyu Yu , Weijie Hong , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Log-based anomaly detection (LogAD) is critical for maintaining the reliability and availability of large-scale online service systems. While machine learning, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs)-based methods have advanced the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Junjie Huang , Minghua He , Jinyang Liu , Yintong Huo , Domenico Bianculli , 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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Max Landauer , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger

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

The realm of AIOps is transforming IT landscapes with the power of AI and ML. Despite the challenge of limited labeled data, supervised models show promise, emphasizing the importance of leveraging labels for training, especially in deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Thorsten Wittkopp , Alexander Acker , Odej Kao

Logs are critical resources that record events, activities, or messages produced by software applications, operating systems, servers, and network devices. However, consolidating the heterogeneous logs and cross-referencing them is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Rabimba Karanjai , Yang Lu , Dana Alsagheer , Keshav Kasichainula , Lei Xu , Weidong Shi , Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang

Logs are semi-structured text files that represent software's execution paths and states during its run-time. Therefore, detecting anomalies in software logs reflect anomalies in the software's execution path or state. So, it has become a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shayan Hashemi , Mika Mäntylä

As software systems grow increasingly intricate, the precise detection of anomalies have become both essential and challenging. Current log-based anomaly detection methods depend heavily on vast amounts of log data leading to inefficient…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Kangjin Wang , Mengxi Jia , Yang Yong , Ying 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

Distributed databases are fundamental infrastructures of today's large-scale software systems such as cloud systems. Detecting anomalies in distributed databases is essential for maintaining software availability. Existing approaches,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Mengxi Jia , Ying Li , Yong Yang , Zhonghai Wu

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

Software systems often record important runtime information in logs to help with troubleshooting. Log-based anomaly detection has become a key research area that aims to identify system issues through log data, ultimately enhancing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wei Guan , Jian Cao , Shiyou Qian , Jianqi Gao , Chun Ouyang

Log anomaly detection is a critical component in modern software system security and maintenance, serving as a crucial support and basis for system monitoring, operation, and troubleshooting. It aids operations personnel in timely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yingying He , Xiaobing Pei

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

The reliability of cloud platforms is of significant relevance because society increasingly relies on complex software systems running on the cloud. To improve it, cloud providers are automating various maintenance tasks, with failure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Sasho Nedelkoski , Li Wu , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

Log messages are now widely used in software systems. They are important for classification as millions of logs are generated each day. Most logs are unstructured which makes classification a challenge. In this paper, Deep Learning (DL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Amir Farzad , T. Aaron Gulliver