Spatio-temporal decomposition, clustering and identification for alert detection in system logs

  • Authors:
  • A. Makanju;A. Nur Zincir-Heywood;Evangelos E. Milios;Markus Latzel

  • Affiliations:
  • Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;Palomino System Innovations Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this work, we propose an approach based on analyzing the spatio-temporal partitions of a system log, generated by supercomputers consisting of several nodes, for alert detection without employing semantic analysis. In this case, "Spatial" refers to the source of the log event and "Temporal" refers to the time the log event was reported. Our research shows that these spatio-temporal partitions can be clustered to separate normal activity from anomalous activity, with high accuracy. Therefore, our proposed method provides an effective alert detection mechanism.