A Comprehensive Survey of Logging in Software: From Logging Statements Automation to Log Mining and Analysis. (arXiv:2110.12489v2 [cs.SE] UPDATED)

Logs are widely used to record runtime information of software systems, such
as the timestamp and the importance of an event, the unique ID of the source of
the log, and a part of the state of a task's execution. The rich information of
logs enables system developers (and operators) to monitor the runtime behaviors
of their systems and further track down system problems and perform analysis on
log data in production settings. However, the prior research on utilizing logs …

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