Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs - Oct 14 - Call for Participation

[Greg Bronevetsky <greg () bronevetsky com>]

       Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) 2009
               http://www.systemloganalysis.com
                   Call for Participation

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                      October 14, 2009
                        Big Sky, MT
                          (at SOSP)
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System logs contain a wide variety of information about system status 
and health,
including events from various applications, daemons and drivers, as well 
as sampled
information such as resource utilization statistics. As such, these logs 
represent a
rich source of information for the analysis and diagnosis of system 
problems and
prediction of future system events. However, their lack of organization 
and the general
lack of semantic consistency between information from various software 
and hardware
vendors means that most of this information content is wasted. Indeed, 
today's
most popular log analysis technique is to use regular expressions to 
either detect
events of interest or to filter the log so that a human operator can 
examine it manually.
Clearly, this captures only a fraction of the information available in 
these logs and
does not scale to the large systems common in business and 
supercomputing environments.
This workshop will focus on novel techniques for extracting 
operationally useful
information from existing logs and methods to improve the information 
content of future
logs.

Workshop Program

Session 1: Log Analysis Tools
   - "Extracting Message Types from BlueGene/L's Logs", A. Makanju, A. 
Zincir-Heywood, and E. Milios  
   - "Incremental Learning of System Log Formats", K. Zhu, K. Fisher, 
and D. Walker  
   - "Visual and Algorithmic Tooling for System Trace Analysis: A Case 
Study", W. De Pauw and S. Heisig  

Session 2: Analyzing System Logs
   - "Mining Dependency in Distributed Systems through Unstructured 
Logs Analysis", J. Lou, Q. Fu, Y. Wang, and J. Li  
   - "A Bayesian Network Approach to Modeling IT Service Availability 
using System Logs", R. Zhang, E. Cope, L. Huesler, and F. Cheng  
   - "Endpoint Identification Using System Logs", S. Melvin  

Session 3: Group Discussion on Current State of the Art
   - Tips and tricks in current use.
   - Gaps and challenges in current techniques.
   - Vision and steps for the future.

Session 4: Panel on Future Research Agenda
   - What are the most difficult problems with logging, in the real world?
   - How to make academia-industry interactions more productive?
   - How to extract meaningful information from logs?
   - How to improve system management?


Workshop Chair:
   Greg Bronevetsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
   greg () bronevetsky com

Program Committee:
   Jon Stearley, Sandia National Laboratory
   Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
   Sébastien Tricaud, INL
   Sapan Bhatia, Princeton University
   Risto Vaarandi, CCD CoE
   Jim Jansen, Penn State University
   Wei Xu, University of California, Berkeley
   Anton Chuvakin, Qualys
   Kara Nance, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
   Raffael Marty, PixlCloud

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