Rethinking log parsing in the context of modern software ecosystems

Modern systems generate a tremendous amount of data, making manual investigations infeasible, hence requiring automating the process of analysis. However, running automated log analysis pipelines is far from straightforward, due to the changing nature of software ecosystems caused by the constant need to adapt to user requirements. In practice,...

Tracing Back Log Data to its Log Statement: From Research to Practice

Logs are widely used as a source of information to understand the activity of computer systems and to monitor their health and stability. However, most log analysis techniques require the link between the log messages in the raw log file and the log statements in the source code that produce them. Several solutions have been proposed to solve...

A Search-based Approach for Accurate Identification of Log Message Formats

Many software engineering activities process the events contained in log files. However, before performing any processing activity, it is necessary to parse the entries in a log file, to retrieve the actual events recorded in the log. Each event is denoted by a log message, which is composed of a fixed part—called (event) template—that is the...

SaaS Analytics: Analyzing usage data to improve software

The final report of our Bachelor project at TOPdesk in which we built an application for gathering usage data from the TOPdesk software.