Method for generating a coherent representation for at least two log files

Abstract

Provided is a Computer-implemented method for Receiving the at least two log files; wherein each log file of the at least two log files includes at least one log entry with at least one time stamp and at least one message; wherein the at least two log files differ from one another with respect to at least one distinctive criteria; Extracting at least one additional information of each log file of the at least two log files; and Combining each log file of the at least two log files with the extracted additional information into at least two processed log tiles; wherein the at least two processed log files comply with a coherent representation. Further, the invention relates to a corresponding computer program product and generating unit.

1 . A computer-implemented method for generating a coherent representation for at least two log tiles, comprising the steps:
 a. Receiving the at least two log files; wherein   b. each log file of the at least two log files comprises at least one log entry with at least one time stamp and at least one message; wherein   c. the at least two log files differ from one another with respect to at least one distinctive criteria;   d. Extracting at least one additional information of each log file of the at least two log tiles; and   e. Combining each log file of the at least two log files with the extracted additional information into at least two processed log files; wherein   f. the at least two processed log files comply with a coherent representation.   
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one distinctive criteria is selected from the group comprising:
 type format and structure.   
     
     
         3 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the additional information is an information selected from the group comprising:
 a computing unit which generated the log file, a program which generated the log file, configuration information of the computing unit which generated the log file, a log entry template and a connection between a log entry and the computing unit the log entry references.   
     
     
         4 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the coherent representation is an input for log mining or any other further analysis. 
     
     
         5 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the method comprises the further step of loading the coherent representation into a knowledge graph. 
     
     
         6 . A computer program product directly loadable into an internal memory of a computer, comprising software code portions for performing the steps according to claim I when said computer program product is running on a computer. 
     
     
         7 . The generating unit for performing the steps according to  claim 1 .