ISSTA 2024
Mon 16 - Fri 20 September 2024 Vienna, Austria
co-located with ISSTA/ECOOP 2024
Thu 19 Sep 2024 10:30 - 10:50 at EI 10 Fritz Paschke - Logging and Field Bugs Chair(s): Willem Visser

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 data for automated log analysis. Given the abundance of log parsers that employ various techniques, evaluating these tools to comprehend their characteristics and performance becomes imperative. Loghub serves as a commonly used dataset for benchmarking log parsers, but it suffers from limited scale and representativeness, posing significant challenges for studies to comprehensively evaluate existing log parsers or develop new methods. This limitation is particularly pronounced when assessing these log parsers for production use. To address these limitations, we provide a new collection of annotated log datasets, denoted Loghub-2.0, which can better reflect the characteristics of log data in real-world software systems. Loghub-2.0 comprises 14 datasets with an average of 3.6 million log lines in each dataset. Based on Loghub-2.0, we conduct a thorough re-evaluation of 15 state-of-the-art log parsers in a more rigorous and practical setting. Particularly, we introduce a new evaluation metric to mitigate the sensitivity of existing metrics to imbalanced data distributions. We are also the first to investigate the granular performance of log parsers on logs that represent rare system events, offering in-depth details for software diagnosis. Accurately parsing such logs is essential, yet it remains a challenge. We believe this work could shed light on the evaluation and design of log parsers in practical settings, thereby facilitating their deployment in production systems.

Thu 19 Sep

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10:30 - 11:50
Logging and Field BugsTechnical Papers at EI 10 Fritz Paschke
Chair(s): Willem Visser Amazon Web Services
10:30
20m
Research paper
A Large-Scale Evaluation for Log Parsing Techniques: How Far Are We?
Technical Papers
Zhihan Jiang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jinyang Liu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Junjie Huang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yichen LI Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yintong Huo Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jiazhen Gu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhuangbin Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Jieming Zhu Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Michael Lyu Chinese University of Hong Kong
DOI Pre-print
10:50
20m
Talk
FastLog: An End-to-End Method to Efficiently Generate and Insert Logging Statements
Technical Papers
Xiaoyuan Xie Wuhan University, Zhipeng Cai Wuhan University, Songqiang Chen The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jifeng Xuan Wuhan University
DOI
11:10
20m
Talk
Face It Yourselves: An LLM-Based Two-Stage Strategy to Localize Configuration Errors via Logs
Technical Papers
Shiwen Shan Sun Yat-sen University, Yintong Huo Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Yichen LI Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dan Li Sun Yat-sen University, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
DOI
11:30
20m
Talk
Foliage: Nourishing Evolving Software by Characterizing and Clustering Field Bugs
Technical Papers
Zhanyao Lei Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yixiong Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Mingyuan Xia AppetizerIO, Zhengwei Qi Shanghai Jiao Tong University
DOI

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Thu 19 Sep 2024 10:30 - 11:50 at EI 10 Fritz Paschke - Logging and Field Bugs Chair(s): Willem Visser
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