Event logs are widely used to record the status of high-tech systems, making log anomaly detection important for monitoring those systems. Most existing log anomaly detection methods take a log event count matrix or log event sequences as input, exploiting quantitative and/or sequential relationships between log events to detect anomalies. Unfortunately, only considering quantitative or sequential relationships may result in many false positives and/or false negatives. To alleviate this problem, we propose a graph-based method for unsupervised log anomaly detection, dubbed Logs2Graphs, which first converts event logs into attributed, directed, and weighted graphs, and then leverages graph neural networks to perform graph-level anomaly detection. Specifically, we introduce One-Class Digraph Inception Convolutional Networks, abbreviated as OCDiGCN, a novel graph neural network model for detecting graph-level anomalies in a collection of attributed, directed, and weighted graphs. By coupling the graph representation and anomaly detection steps, OCDiGCN can learn a representation that is especially suited for anomaly detection, resulting in a high detection accuracy. Importantly, for each identified anomaly, we additionally provide a small subset of nodes that play a crucial role in OCDiGCN's prediction as explanations, which can offer valuable cues for subsequent root cause diagnosis. Experiments on five benchmark datasets show that Logs2Graphs performs at least on par state-of-the-art log anomaly detection methods on simple datasets while largely outperforming state-of-the-art log anomaly detection methods on complicated datasets.

翻译：事件日志被广泛用于记录高科技系统的状态，使得日志异常检测成为监控这些系统的重要手段。现有的大多数日志异常检测方法以日志事件计数矩阵或日志事件序列作为输入，利用日志事件之间的数量关系和/或时序关系来检测异常。然而，仅考虑数量关系或时序关系可能导致大量的误报和/或漏报。为解决这一问题，我们提出了一种基于图的无监督日志异常检测方法Logs2Graphs：该方法首先将事件日志转换为带属性、有向且加权的图，随后利用图神经网络执行图级别的异常检测。具体而言，我们提出了一种名为OCDiGCN的新型图神经网络模型——单类有向图起始卷积网络，用于在带属性、有向且加权的图集合中检测图级别异常。通过将图表示与异常检测步骤耦合，OCDiGCN能够学习到特别适合异常检测的表示，从而获得较高的检测准确率。重要的是，对于每个检测到的异常，我们还额外提供在OCDiGCN预测中起关键作用的少量节点作为解释，这可为后续的根因诊断提供有价值的线索。在五个基准数据集上的实验表明，Logs2Graphs在简单数据集上的性能至少与最优的日志异常检测方法持平，而在复杂数据集上的表现则大幅优于现有最优方法。