WASL is an annual workshop, usually held in the fall that focuses on novel techniques for extracting operationally useful information from existing systen logs and methods to improve the information content of future logs. Topics include but are not limited to:

Reports on publicly available sources of sample log data Log anonymization

Log feature detection and extraction

Prediction of malfunction or misuse based on log data

Statistical techniques to characterize log data

Applications of Natural-Language Processing (NLP) to logs

Scalable log compression

Log comparison techniques

Methods to enhance and standardize log semantics

System diagnostic techniques

Log visualization

Analysis of services (problem ticket) logs

Applications of log analysis to system administration