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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

Event logs are widely used for anomaly detection and prediction in complex systems. Existing log-based anomaly detection methods usually consist of four main steps: log collection, log parsing, feature extraction, and anomaly detection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhong Li , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Context: Logs are often the primary source of information for system developers and operations engineers to understand and diagnose the behavior of a software system in production. In many cases, logs are the only evidence available for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Eduardo Mendes , Fabio Petrillo

IT infrastructure is a crucial part in most of today's business operations. High availability and reliability, and short response times to outages are essential. Thus a high amount of tool support and automation in risk management is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Joerg Schoenfisch , Janno von Stulpnagel , Jens Ortmann , Christian Meilicke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

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 anomaly detection is a key component in the field of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps). Considering log data of variant domains, retraining the whole network for unknown domains is inefficient in real industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Hongcheng Guo , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Jiaqi Bai , Boyang Wang , Zhoujun Li , Tieqiao Zheng , Bo Zhang , Junran peng , Qi Tian

Software systems log massive amounts of data, recording important runtime information. Such logs are used, for example, for log-based anomaly detection, which aims to automatically detect abnormal behaviors of the system under analysis by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zanis Ali Khan , Donghwan Shin , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

The stability and performance of Cloud platforms are essential as they directly impact customers' satisfaction. Cloud service providers use Cloud monitoring tools to ensure that rendered services match the quality of service requirements…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-09 William Pourmajidi , Andriy Miranskyy , John Steinbacher , Tony Erwin , David Godwin

Modern software systems produce vast amounts of logs, serving as an essential resource for anomaly detection. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) tools have been developed to automate the process of log-based anomaly detection…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuqing Wang , Mika V. Mäntylä , Jesse Nyyssölä , Ke Ping , Liqiang Wang

Logs are an essential source of information for people to understand the running status of a software system. Due to the evolving modern software architecture and maintenance methods, more research efforts have been devoted to automated log…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xingfang Wu , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Logs are imperative in the maintenance of online service systems, which often encompass important information for effective failure mitigation. While existing anomaly detection methodologies facilitate the identification of anomalous logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Junjie Huang , Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Yintong Huo , Jiazhen Gu , Zhuangbin Chen , Cong Feng , Hui Dong , Zengyin Yang , Michael R. Lyu

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

Detecting anomalies and the corresponding root causes in multivariate time series plays an important role in monitoring the behaviors of various real-world systems, e.g., IT system operations or manufacturing industry. Previous anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Wenzhuo Yang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Logs provide users with useful insights to help with a variety of development and operations tasks. The problem is that logs are often unstructured, making their analysis a complex task. This is mainly due to the lack of guidelines and best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Issam Sedki , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj , Otmane Ait-Mohamed

Effective anomaly detection from logs is crucial for enhancing cybersecurity defenses by enabling the early identification of threats. Despite advances in anomaly detection, existing systems often fall short in areas such as post-detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Zhuoran Tan , Qiyuan Wang , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Shameem P. Parambath , Jeremy Singer , Sam Temple

Within today's large-scale systems, one anomaly can impact millions of users. Detecting such events in real-time is essential to maintain the quality of services. It allows the monitoring team to prevent or diminish the impact of a failure.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arthur Vervaet

Detecting system anomalies based on log data is important for ensuring the security and reliability of computer systems. Recently, deep learning models have been widely used for log anomaly detection. The core idea is to model the log…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Han , Shuhan Yuan , Mohamed Trabelsi

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

Automatic log analysis is essential for the efficient Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of software systems, providing critical insights into system behaviors. However, existing approaches mostly treat log analysis as training a model to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yilun Liu , Yuhe Ji , Shimin Tao , Minggui He , Weibin Meng , Shenglin Zhang , Yongqian Sun , Yuming Xie , Boxing Chen , Hao Yang

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