LogUAD: Log Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Based on Word2Vec

System logs record detailed information about system operation and areimportant for analyzing the system's operational status and performance. Rapidand accurate detection of system anomalies is of great significance to ensure system stability. However, large-scale distributed systems are becoming more andmore complex, and the number of system logs gradually increases, which bringschallenges to analyze system logs. Some recent studies show that logs can beunstable due to the evolution of log statements and noise introduced by log collection and parsing. Moreover, deep learning-based detection methods take a longtime to train models. Therefore, to reduce the computational cost and avoid loginstability we propose a new Word2Vec-based log unsupervised anomaly detection method (LogUAD). LogUAD does not require a log parsing step and takesoriginal log messages as input to avoid the noise. LogUAD uses Word2Vec togenerate word vectors and generates weighted log sequence feature vectors withTF-IDF to handle the evolution of log statements. At last, a computationally effi-cient unsupervised clustering is exploited to detect the anomaly. We conductedextensive experiments on the public dataset from Blue Gene/L (BGL). Experimental results show that the F1-score of LogUAD can be improved by 67.25%compared to LogCluster.