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Security misconfigurations in Container Orchestrators (COs) can pose serious threats to software systems. While Static Analysis Tools (SATs) can effectively detect these security vulnerabilities, the industry currently lacks automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ziyang Ye , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar

Log files record computational events that reflect system state and behavior, making them a primary source of operational insights in modern computer systems. Automated anomaly detection on logs is therefore critical, yet most established…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Simon Dietz , Kai Klede , An Nguyen , Bjoern M Eskofier

IT environments typically have logging mechanisms to monitor system health and detect issues. However, the huge volume of generated logs makes manual inspection impractical, highlighting the importance of automated log analysis in IT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pranjal Gupta , Karan Bhukar , Harshit Kumar , Seema Nagar , Prateeti Mohapatra , Debanjana Kar

Software crash bugs cause unexpected program behaviors or even abrupt termination, thus demanding immediate resolution. However, resolving crash bugs can be challenging due to their complex root causes, which can originate from issues in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xueying Du , Mingwei Liu , Hanlin Wang , Juntao Li , Xin Peng , Yiling Lou

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 serves as an essential prerequisite for various log analysis tasks. Recent advancements in this field have improved parsing accuracy by leveraging the semantics in logs through fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Junjie Huang , Zhihan Jiang , Zhuangbin Chen , Michael R. Lyu

The programming language Prolog makes declarative programming possible, at least to a substantial extent. Programs may be written and reasoned about in terms of their declarative semantics. All the advantages of declarative programming are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Włodzimierz Drabent

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

The widespread adoption of Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestrating cloud-native applications has introduced significant security challenges, such as misconfigured resources and overly permissive configurations. Failing to address these issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Omri Sgan Cohen , Ehud Malul , Yair Meidan , Dudu Mimran , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Compilation is an important process in developing configurable systems, such as Linux. However, identifying compilation errors in configurable systems is not straightforward because traditional compilers are not variability-aware. Previous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Lucas Albuquerque , Rohit Gheyi , Márcio Ribeiro

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

Log analysis is one of the main techniques that engineers use for troubleshooting large-scale software systems. Over the years, many supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised log analysis methods have been proposed to detect system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar

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

Context: Logging is an important part of modern software projects; logs are used in several tasks such as debugging and testing. Due to the complex nature of logging, it remains a difficult task with several pitfalls that could have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Nyyti Saarimäki , Donghwan Shin , Domenico Bianculli

Code contains security and functional bugs. The process of identifying and localizing them is difficult and relies on human labor. In this work, we present a novel approach (FLAG) to assist human debuggers. FLAG is based on the lexical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Baleegh Ahmad , Benjamin Tan , Ramesh Karri , Hammond Pearce

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are critical to modern software engineering, yet diagnosing and resolving their failures remains complex and labor-intensive. We present LogSage, the first end-to-end LLM-powered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Weiyuan Xu , Juntao Luo , Tao Huang , Kaixin Sui , Jie Geng , Qijun Ma , Isami Akasaka , Xiaoxue Shi , Jing Tang , Peng Cai

Log data are generated from logging statements in the source code, providing insights into the execution processes of software applications and systems. State-of-the-art log-based anomaly detection approaches typically leverage deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xingfang Wu , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Software systems generate massive, evolving, semi-structured logs that are central to reliability engineering and AIOps, yet difficult to analyze at scale under drift and limited labels. Recent advances in pretrained Transformer models and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zeyang Ma , Jinqiu Yang , Tse-Hsun Chen

Highly configurable systems are highly complex systems, with the Linux kernel arguably being one of the most well-known ones. Since 2007, it has been a frequent target of the research community, conducting empirical studies and building…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Patrick Franz , Thorsten Berger , Ibrahim Fayaz , Sarah Nadi , Evgeny Groshev

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