Logs are semi-structured text generated by logging statements in software source code. In
recent decades, software logs have become imperative in the reliability assurance …

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 …

Anomaly detection is a critical step towards building a secure and trustworthy system. The
primary purpose of a system log is to record system states and significant events at various …

System event logs have been frequently used as a valuable resource in data-driven
approaches to enhance system health and stability. A typical procedure in system log …

Modern society is increasingly moving toward complex and distributed computing systems.
The increase in scale and complexity of these systems challenges O&M teams that perform …

Monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems is notoriously difficult; potential problems
are complex, varied, and unpredictable. The monitoring and diagnosis tools commonly used …

Logs are often used for troubleshooting in large-scale software systems. For a cloud-based
online system that provides 24/7 service, a huge number of logs could be generated every …

This paper presents Canopy, Facebook's end-to-end performance tracing infrastructure.
Canopy records causally related performance data across the end-to-end execution path of …

Cloud infrastructures provide a rich set of management tasks that operate computing,
storage, and networking resources in the cloud. Monitoring the executions of these tasks is …

Temporal properties are useful for describing and reasoning about software behavior, but
developers rarely write down temporal specifications of their systems. Prior work on inferring …