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Logformer: Cascaded Transformer for System Log Anomaly Detection

Feilu Hang1, Wei Guo1, Hexiong Chen1, Linjiang Xie1, Chenghao Zhou2,*, Yao Liu2

1 Information Center, Yunnan Power Grid Company Limited, Kunming, 650034, China
2 Network and Data Security Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

* Corresponding Author: Chenghao Zhou. Email: email

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Information Security Practice and Experience: Advances and Challenges)

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2023, 136(1), 517-529. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.025774

Abstract

Modern large-scale enterprise systems produce large volumes of logs that record detailed system runtime status and key events at key points. These logs are valuable for analyzing performance issues and understanding the status of the system. Anomaly detection plays an important role in service management and system maintenance, and guarantees the reliability and security of online systems. Logs are universal semi-structured data, which causes difficulties for traditional manual detection and pattern-matching algorithms. While some deep learning algorithms utilize neural networks to detect anomalies, these approaches have an over-reliance on manually designed features, resulting in the effectiveness of anomaly detection depending on the quality of the features. At the same time, the aforementioned methods ignore the underlying contextual information present in adjacent log entries. We propose a novel model called Logformer with two cascaded transformer-based heads to capture latent contextual information from adjacent log entries, and leverage pre-trained embeddings based on logs to improve the representation of the embedding space. The proposed model achieves comparable results on HDFS and BGL datasets in terms of metric accuracy, recall and F1-score. Moreover, the consistent rise in F1-score proves that the representation of the embedding space with pre-trained embeddings is closer to the semantic information of the log.

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APA Style
Hang, F., Guo, W., Chen, H., Xie, L., Zhou, C. et al. (2023). Logformer: cascaded transformer for system log anomaly detection. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 136(1), 517-529. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.025774
Vancouver Style
Hang F, Guo W, Chen H, Xie L, Zhou C, Liu Y. Logformer: cascaded transformer for system log anomaly detection. Comput Model Eng Sci. 2023;136(1):517-529 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.025774
IEEE Style
F. Hang, W. Guo, H. Chen, L. Xie, C. Zhou, and Y. Liu, “Logformer: Cascaded Transformer for System Log Anomaly Detection,” Comput. Model. Eng. Sci., vol. 136, no. 1, pp. 517-529, 2023. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.025774



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