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Logs, being run-time information automatically generated by software, record system events and activities with their timestamps. Before obtaining more insights into the run-time status of the software, a fundamental step of log analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Cheryl Lee , Michael R. Lyu

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

Log parsing is a critical step for automated log analysis in complex systems. Traditional heuristic-based methods offer high efficiency but are limited in accuracy due to overlooking semantic context. In contrast, recent LLM-based parsers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dongyi Fan , Suqiong Zhang , Lili He , Ming Liu , Yifan Huo

Log parsing is a fundamental step for automated log analysis, which transforms raw log messages into structured formats. Existing syntax-based parsers struggle with complex logs because they lack semantic reasoning ability. Emerging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shiwen Shan , Yintong Huo , Minxing Wang , Zhiying Wu , Yuxin Su , Zibin Zheng

Log parsing, which involves log template extraction from semi-structured logs to produce structured logs, is the first and the most critical step in automated log analysis. However, current log parsers suffer from limited effectiveness for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Junjielong Xu , Ruichun Yang , Yintong Huo , Chengyu Zhang , Pinjia He

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

Log parsing converts semi-structured logs into structured templates, forming a critical foundation for downstream analysis. Traditional syntax and semantic-based parsers often struggle with semantic variations in evolving logs and data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jianbo Yu , Yixuan Li , Hai Xu , Kang Xu , Junjielong Xu , Zhijing Li , Pinjia He , Wanyuan Wang

Logs generated by large-scale software systems provide crucial information for engineers to understand the system status and diagnose problems of the systems. Log parsing, which converts raw log messages into structured data, is the first…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

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

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

Logs are imperative in the development and maintenance process of many software systems. They record detailed runtime information that allows developers and support engineers to monitor their systems and dissect anomalous behaviors and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Jinyang Liu , Pinjia He , Qi Xie , Zibin Zheng , Michael R. Lyu

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 SINTAGMA information integration system is an infrastructure for accessing several different information sources together. Besides providing a uniform interface to the information sources (databases, web services, web sites, RDF…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-12-20 András Gyorgy Békés , Péter Szeredi

SYNTAGMA is a rule-based parsing system, structured on two levels: a general parsing engine and a language specific grammar. The parsing engine is a language independent program, while grammar and language specific rules and resources are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Daniel Christen

Logs produced by extensive software systems are integral to monitoring system behaviors. Advanced log analysis facilitates the detection, alerting, and diagnosis of system faults. Log parsing, which entails transforming raw log messages…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Wei Zhang , Xiangyuan Guan , Lu Yunhong , Jie Zhang , Shuangyong Song , Xianfu Cheng , Zhenhe Wu , Zhoujun Li

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

Software log analysis helps to maintain the health of software solutions and ensure compliance and security. Existing software systems consist of heterogeneous components emitting logs in various formats. A typical solution is to unify the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Jared Rand , Andriy Miranskyy

Log parsing has been a long-studied area in software engineering due to its importance in identifying dynamic variables and constructing log templates. Prior work has proposed many statistic-based log parsers (e.g., Drain), which are highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Qiaolin Qin , Roozbeh Aghili , Heng Li , Ettore Merlo

Modern information and communication systems have become increasingly challenging to manage. The ubiquitous system logs contain plentiful information and are thus widely exploited as an alternative source for system management. As log files…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tianzhu Zhang , Han Qiu , Gabriele Castellano , Myriana Rifai , Chung Shue Chen , Fabio Pianese

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
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