Did we miss something important? studying and exploring variable-aware log abstraction

Z Li, C Luo, TH Chen, W Shang, S He… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the sheer size of software logs, developers rely on automated techniques for log
analysis. One of the first and most important steps of automated log analysis is log …

PILAR: Studying and mitigating the influence of configurations on log parsing

H Dai, Y Tang, H Li, W Shang - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The significance of logs has been widely acknowledged with the adoption of various log
analysis techniques that assist in software engineering tasks. Many log analysis techniques …

Loghub: A large collection of system log datasets for ai-driven log analytics

J Zhu, S He, P He, J Liu, MR Lyu - 2023 IEEE 34th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logs have been widely adopted in software system development and maintenance because
of the rich runtime information they record. In recent years, the increase of software size and …

SPINE: a scalable log parser with feedback guidance

X Wang, X Zhang, L Li, S He, H Zhang, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Log parsing, which extracts log templates and parameters, is a critical prerequisite step for
automated log analysis techniques. Though existing log parsers have achieved promising …

Log parsing evaluation in the era of modern software systems

S Petrescu, F Den Hengst, A Uta… - 2023 IEEE 34th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the complexity and size of modern software systems, the amount of logs generated is
tremendous. Hence, it is infeasible to manually investigate these data in a reasonable time …

Semparser: A semantic parser for log analytics

Y Huo, Y Su, C Lee, MR Lyu - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

An empirical study of log analysis at Microsoft

S He, X Zhang, P He, Y Xu, L Li, Y Kang, M Ma… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Logs are crucial to the management and maintenance of software systems. In recent years,
log analysis research has achieved notable progress on various topics such as log parsing …

Log Parsing with Generalization Ability under New Log Types

S Yu, Y Wu, Z Li, P He, N Chen, C Liu - … of the 31st ACM Joint European …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Log parsing, which converts semi-structured logs into structured logs, is the first step for
automated log analysis. Existing parsers are still unsatisfactory in real-world systems due to …

A systematic literature review on automated log abstraction techniques

D El-Masri, F Petrillo, YG Guéhéneuc… - Information and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Context: Logs are often the first and only information available to software engineers to
understand and debug their systems. Automated log-analysis techniques help software …

LogAssist: Assisting log analysis through log summarization

S Locke, H Li, THP Chen, W Shang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logs contain valuable information about the runtime behaviors of software systems. Thus,
practitioners rely on logs for various tasks such as debugging, system comprehension, and …