Impact of Log Parsing on Log-based Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15897v1
• Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 09:53:02 GMT
• Title: Impact of Log Parsing on Log-based Anomaly Detection
• Authors: Zanis Ali Khan, Donghwan Shin, Domenico Bianculli, Lionel Briand
• Abstract summary: We report on a comprehensive empirical study on the impact of log parsing on anomaly detection accuracy. Despite what is widely assumed, there is no strong correlation between log parsing accuracy and anomaly detection accuracy. We experimentally confirm existing theoretical results showing that it is a property that we refer to as distinguishability in log parsing results.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Software systems log massive amounts of data, recording important runtime information. Such logs are used, for example, for log-based anomaly detection, which aims to automatically detect abnormal behaviors of the system under analysis by processing the information recorded in its logs. Many log-based anomaly detection techniques based on deep-learning models include a pre-processing step called log parsing. However, understanding the impact of log parsing on the accuracy of anomaly detection techniques has received surprisingly little attention so far. Investigating what are the key properties log parsing techniques should ideally have to help anomaly detection is therefore warranted. In this paper, we report on a comprehensive empirical study on the impact of log parsing on anomaly detection accuracy, using 13 log parsing techniques and five deep-learning-based anomaly detection techniques on two publicly available log datasets. Our empirical results show that, despite what is widely assumed, there is no strong correlation between log parsing accuracy and anomaly detection accuracy (regardless of the metric used for measuring log parsing accuracy). Moreover, we experimentally confirm existing theoretical results showing that it is a property that we refer to as distinguishability in log parsing results as opposed to their accuracy that plays an essential role in achieving accurate anomaly detection.

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