Automated information technology system failure recommendation and mitigation

Abstract

A method for implementing automated information technology (IT) system failure recommendation and mitigation includes performing log pattern learning to automatically generate sparse time series for each log pattern for a set of classification logs corresponding to a failure, performing multivariate log time series extraction based on the log pattern learning to generate a failure signature for the set of classification logs, including representing the sparse time series as a run-length encoded sequence for efficient storage and computation, calculating a similarity distance between the failure signature for the set of classification logs and each failure signature from a failure signature model file, determining a failure label for the failure corresponding to a most similar known failure based on the similarity distance, and initiating failure mitigation based on the failure label.