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Log data have facilitated various tasks of software development and maintenance, such as testing, debugging and diagnosing. Due to the unstructured nature of logs, log parsing is typically required to transform log messages into structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Junjie Huang , Yichen Li , Yintong Huo , Jiazhen Gu , Zhuangbin Chen , Jieming Zhu , Michael R. Lyu

Large-scale software systems generate vast volumes of system logs that are essential for monitoring, diagnosing, and performance optimization. However, the unstructured nature and ever-growing scale of these logs present significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shu-Wei Huang , Xingfang Wu , Heng Li

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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aoxiao Zhong , Dengyao Mo , Guiyang Liu , Jinbu Liu , Qingda Lu , Qi Zhou , Jiesheng Wu , Quanzheng Li , Qingsong Wen

Logs provide first-hand information for engineers to diagnose failures in large-scale online service systems. Log parsing, which transforms semi-structured raw log messages into structured data, is a prerequisite of automated log analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yudong Liu , Xu Zhang , Shilin He , Hongyu Zhang , Liqun Li , Yu Kang , Yong Xu , Minghua Ma , Qingwei Lin , Yingnong Dang , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

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

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

Log parsing, which extracts log templates from semi-structured logs and produces structured logs, is the first and the most critical step in automated log analysis. While existing log parsers have achieved decent results, they suffer from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Junjielong Xu , Qiuai Fu , Zhouruixing Zhu , Yutong Cheng , Zhijing Li , Yuchi Ma , Pinjia He

In the last decade, an impressive increase in software adaptions has led to a surge in log data production, making manual log analysis impractical and establishing the necessity for automated methods. Conversely, most automated analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shayan Hashemi , Mika Mäntylä

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 a fundamental component of modern computer systems. They enable the analysis and monitoring teams to understand any abnormal or malicious behavior that may have occurred. The continuous increase in the volume of logs generated by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arthur Vervaet , Raja Chiky , Mar Callau-Zori

Log parsing transforms log messages into structured formats, serving as the prerequisite step for various log analysis tasks. Although a variety of log parsing approaches have been proposed, their performance on complicated log data remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Zhuangbin Chen , Yichen Li , Junjie Huang , Yintong Huo , Pinjia He , Jiazhen Gu , Michael R. Lyu

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

System-generated logs are typically converted into categorical log templates through parsing. These templates are crucial for generating actionable insights in various downstream tasks. However, existing parsers often fail to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Prerak Srivastava , Giulio Corallo , Sergey Rybalko

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

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

With the increasing prevalence of scalable file systems in the context of High Performance Computing (HPC), the importance of accurate anomaly detection on runtime logs is increasing. But as it currently stands, many state-of-the-art…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Chris Egersdoerfer , Dong Dai , Di Zhang

Logs contain critical information about the quality of the rendered services on the Cloud and can be used as digital evidence. Hence, we argue that the critical nature of logs calls for immutability and verification mechanism without the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 William Pourmajidi , Lei Zhang , John Steinbacher , Tony Erwin , Andriy Miranskyy

Due to the sheer size of software logs, developers rely on automated log analysis. Log parsing, which parses semi-structured logs into a structured format, is a prerequisite of automated log analysis. However, existing log parsers are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yifan Wu , Bingxu Chai , Siyu Yu , Ying Li , Pinjia He , Wei Jiang , Jianguo Li

Leadership-class HPC systems generate massive volumes of heterogeneous, largely unstructured system logs. Because these logs originate from diverse software, hardware, and runtime layers, they exhibit inconsistent formats, making structure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ahmad Maroof Karimi , Jong Youl Choi , Charles Qing Cao , Awais Khan
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