Did We Miss Something Important? Studying and Exploring Variable-Aware Log Abstraction

Understand

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 abstraction, which parses the raw logs into a structured format.
• Prior log abstraction techniques aim to identify and abstract all the dynamic variables in logs and output a static log template for automated log analysis.
• However, these abstracted dynamic variables may also contain important information that is useful to different tasks in log analysis.