ASE 2024
Sun 27 October - Fri 1 November 2024 Sacramento, California, United States
Wed 30 Oct 2024 10:30 - 10:45 at Carr - Log and trace; failure and fault Chair(s): Yiming Tang

Log parsing, the process of converting raw log messages into structured formats, is an important initial step for automated analysis of logs of large-scale software systems. Traditional log parsers often rely on heuristics or handcrafted features, which may not generalize well across diverse log sources or require extensive model tuning. Recently, some log parsers have utilized powerful generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, they heavily rely on demonstration examples, resulting in substantial overhead in LLM invocation. To address these issues, we propose LogBatcher, a cost-effective LLM-based log parser that requires no training process or labeled data. To leverage latent characteristics of log data and reduce the overhead, we divide logs into several partitions through clustering. Then we perform a cache matching process to match logs with previously parsed log templates. Finally, we provide LLMs with better prompt context specialized for log parsing by batching a group of logs from each partition. We have conducted experiments on 16 public log datasets and the results show that LogBatcher is effective and efficient for log parsing.

Wed 30 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Log and trace; failure and faultResearch Papers / Industry Showcase at Carr
Chair(s): Yiming Tang Rochester Institute of Technology
10:30
15m
Talk
Demonstration-Free: Towards More Practical Log Parsing with Large Language Models
Research Papers
Yi Xiao , Van-Hoang Le The University of Newcastle, Hongyu Zhang Chongqing University
10:45
15m
Talk
Unlocking the Power of Numbers: Log Compression via Numeric Token Parsing
Research Papers
Siyu Yu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), Yifan Wu Peking University, Ying Li School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China, Pinjia He Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
11:00
15m
Talk
Towards Synthetic Trace Generation of Modeling Operations using In-Context Learning Approach
Research Papers
Vittoriano Muttillo University of Teramo, Claudio Di Sipio University of l'Aquila, Riccardo Rubei University of L'Aquila, Luca Berardinelli Johannes Kepler University Linz, MohammadHadi Dehghani Johannes Kepler University Linz
11:15
15m
Talk
DeployFix: Dynamic Repair of Software Deployment Failures via Constraint Solving
Industry Showcase
Haoyu Liao East China Normal University, Jianmei Guo East China Normal University, Bo Huang East China Normal University, Yujie Han East China Normal University, Dingyu Yang Zhejiang University, Kai Shi Alibaba Group, Jonathan Ding Intel, Guoyao Xu Alibaba Group, Guodong Yang Alibaba Group, Liping Zhang Alibaba Group
11:30
15m
Talk
FAIL: Analyzing Software Failures from the News Using LLMs
Research Papers
Dharun Anandayuvaraj Purdue University, Matthew Campbell Purdue University, Arav Tewari Purdue University, James C. Davis Purdue University
DOI Pre-print
11:45
15m
Talk
Do not neglect what's on your hands: localizing software faults with exception trigger streamACM SigSoft Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Xihao Zhang School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Yi Song School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Xiaoyuan Xie Wuhan University, Qi Xin Wuhan University, Chenliang Xing School of Computer Science, Wuhan University