Apparatus for and method of implementing system log message ranking via system behavior analysis
US8452761B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 24, 2007 |
| Grant date | May 28, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 17, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/88
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A novel and useful method for enabling system logs to be effectively and efficiently monitored by ranking the system log messages by their estimated value to administrators and generating a log view that displays the most important messages. The ranking process uses a dataset of system logs from many computer systems to score messages. For better scoring, unsupervised clustering is used to identify sets of systems that behave similarly. The expected distribution of messages in a given system is estimated using the resulting clusters, and log messages are scored using this estimation.
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