SOSP WASL 2009
Call for Papers
Workshop Website
Important Dates
- Full Paper Submission:
Monday, June 29th, 2009
- Author Notification:
Monday, July 27, 2009
- Final Papers Due:
Monday, September 14, 2009
System logs contain a wide variety of information about system status and health,
including events from various applications, daemons and drivers, as well as sampled
information such as resource utilization statistics. As such, these logs represent a
rich source of information for the analysis and diagnosis of system problems and
prediction of future system events. However, their lack of organization and the general
lack of semantic consistency between information from various software and hardware
vendors means that most of this information content is wasted. Indeed, today's
most popular log analysis technique is to use regular expressions to either detect
events of interest or to filter the log so that a human operator can examine it manually.
Clearly, this captures only a fraction of the information available in these logs and
does not scale to the large systems common in business and supercomputing environments.
This workshop will focus on novel techniques for extracting operationally useful
information from existing logs and methods to improve the information content of future
logs. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Reports on publicly available sources of sample log data
- Log anonymization
- Log feature detection and extraction
- Prediction of malfunction or misuse based on log data
- Statistical techniques to characterize log data
- Applications of Natural-Language Processing (NLP) to logs
- Scalable log compression
- Log comparison techniques
- Methods to enhance and standardize log semantics
- System diagnostic techniques
- Log visualization
- Analysis of services (problem ticket) logs
- Applications of log analysis to system administration
Papers limited to 6 2-column pages using >= 10pt font.
Workshop Chair
- Greg Bronevetsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), greg@bronevetsky.com
Program Committee
- Jon Stearley, Sandia National Laboratory
- Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
- Sébastien Tricaud, INL
- Sapan Bhatia, Princeton University
WASL 2009 Technical Program
Extracting Message Types from BlueGene/L's Logs |
A. Makanju, A. Zincir-Heywood, and E. Milios
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Incremental Learning of System Log Formats |
K. Zhu, K. Fisher, and D. Walker
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Visual and Algorithmic Tooling for System Trace Analysis: A Case Study |
W. De Pauw and S. Heisig
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Mining Dependency in Distributed Systems through Unstructured Logs Analysis |
J. Lou, Q. Fu, Y. Wang, and J. Li
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A Bayesian Network Approach to Modeling IT Service Availability using System Logs |
R. Zhang, E. Cope, L. Huesler, and F. Cheng
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Endpoint Identification Using System Logs |
S. Melvin
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- Tips and tricks in current use
- Gaps and challenges in current techniques
- Vision and steps for the future
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- What are the most difficult problems with logging, in the real world?
- How to make academia-industry interactions more productive?
- How to extract meaningful information from logs?
- How to improve system management
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