Auto-Logging: AI-centred Logging Instrumentation
Logging in software development plays a crucial role in bug-fixing, maintaining the code and operating the application. Logs are hints created by human software developers that aim to help human developers and operators in identifying root causes for application bugs or other misbehaviour types. They also serve as a bridge between the Devs and the Ops, allowing the exchange of information. The rise of the DevOps paradigm with the CI/CD pipelines led to a significantly higher number of deployments per month and consequently increased the logging requirements. In response, AI-enabled methods for IT operation (AIOps) are introduced to automate the testing and run-time fault tolerance to a certain extent. However, using logs tailored for human understanding to learn (automatic) AI methods poses an ill-defined problem: AI algorithms need no hints but structured, precise and indicative data. Until now, AIOps researchers adapt the AI algorithms to the properties of the existing human-centred data (e.g., log sentiment), which are not always trivial to model. By pointing out the discrepancy, we envision that there exists an alternative approach: the logging can be adapted such that the produced logs are better tailored towards the strengths of the AI-enabled methods. In response, in this vision paper, we introduce auto-logging, which devises the idea of how to automatically insert log instructions into the code that can better suit AI-enabled methods as end-log consumers.
Fri 19 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
11:00 - 12:30 | Runtime analysis and self-adaptationTechnical Track / NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / Journal-First Papers at Level G - Plenary Room 1 Chair(s): Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg | ||
11:00 15mTalk | Heterogeneous Anomaly Detection for Software Systems via Semi-supervised Cross-modal Attention Technical Track Cheryl Lee The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tianyi Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhuangbin Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Yongqiang Yang Huawei Technologies, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong Pre-print | ||
11:15 15mTalk | Recommending Root-Cause and Mitigation Steps for Cloud Incidents using Large Language Models Technical Track Toufique Ahmed University of California at Davis, Supriyo Ghosh Microsoft, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Xuchao Zhang Microsoft, Saravanakumar Rajmohan Microsoft 365 Pre-print | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Eadro: An End-to-End Troubleshooting Framework for Microservices on Multi-source Data Technical Track Cheryl Lee The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tianyi Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhuangbin Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong Pre-print | ||
11:45 15mTalk | LogReducer: Identify and Reduce Log Hotspots in Kernel on the Fly Technical Track Guangba Yu Sun Yat-Sen University, Pengfei Chen Sun Yat-Sen University, Pairui Li Tencent Inc., Tianjun Weng Tencent Inc., Haibing Zheng Tencent, Yuetang Deng Tencent, Zibin Zheng School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University Pre-print | ||
12:00 15mTalk | TraceArk: Towards Actionable Performance Anomaly Alerting for Online Service Systems SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Zhengran Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology, Yuqun Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology, Yong Xu Microsoft Research, Minghua Ma Microsoft Research, Bo Qiao Microsoft Research, Wentao Zou , Qingjun Chen , Meng Zhang , Xu Zhang Microsoft Research, Hongyu Zhang The University of Newcastle, Xuedong Gao , Hao Fan , Saravan Rajmohan Microsoft 365, Qingwei Lin Microsoft Research, Dongmei Zhang Microsoft Research | ||
12:15 7mTalk | ActivFORMS: A Formally-Founded Model-Based Approach to Engineer Self-Adaptive Systems Journal-First Papers | ||
12:22 7mTalk | Auto-Logging: AI-centred Logging Instrumentation NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results Pre-print |