Symptom-based problem determination using log data abstraction
Liang Pei Huang, Xiaodi Ke, Kenny Wong, Serge Mankovskii · 2010
System failures in industry are expensive, and the increasingly stringent requirements on performance and reliability of enterprise systems have made the detection and diagnosis of system failures crucial and challenging. Log files generated at the system runtime are considered to contain the representations of failure symptoms, and thus become one of the most important sources used for system monitoring and failure diagnosis.