Log Analysis

Log Analysis is an analytical process in digital forensics and incident response that systematically collects, parses, correlates, and interprets event and audit records from information systems to reconstruct system and user activities, detect anomalies or security incidents, and support evidential reasoning.

1.7K

Publications

80.8K

Citations

4.3K

Authors

1.2K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

608

Parents

Digital ForensicsIncident Response

Children

Access Log AnalysisApplication Log AnalysisAuthentication Log AnalysisAutomated Log AnalysisForensic Log PreservationIncident ReconstructionLog AggregationLog ClassificationLog Correlation RulesLog Enrichment

Publications

1.7K

DeepLog

Min Du, Li Fei-Fei, Guineng Zheng et al. · 2017 · 1.6K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +16

Detecting large-scale system problems by mining console logs

Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox et al. · 2009 · 1.3K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +15

Drain: An Online Log Parsing Approach with Fixed Depth Tree

Pinjia He, Jieming Zhu, Zibin Zheng et al. · 2017 · 813 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Information Systems +16

ReVirt

George W. Dunlap, Samuel T. King, Sukru Cinar et al. · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2002 · 805 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +9

Robust log-based anomaly detection on unstable log data

Xu Zhang, Yong Xu, Qingwei Lin et al. · 2019 · 674 citations

Computing, Computer Systems, Cybersecurity +14

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Authors

4.3K

WS
Weiyi Shang
Concordia University, Canada
27 publications · 1.5K citations
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Ahmed E. Hassan
Queen's University, Canada
20 publications · 1.3K citations
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Wil M. P. van der Aalst
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
21 publications · 1.1K citations
18
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Shilin He
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
16 publications · 2.5K citations
16
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Michael R. Lyu
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
17 publications · 3.3K citations
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Institutions

1.2K

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Venues

Empirical Software Engineering
18 publications · 995 citations
16
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Information Systems
15 publications · 500 citations
15
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Digital Investigation
16 publications · 702 citations
15
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arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 21 publications · 640 citations
15
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IEEE Access
14 publications · 487 citations
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