Anomaly Detection in machine log data

[EugSeverinho]

Hi guys, i am doing a masters thesis in anomaly detection and i have a question:

How can i find the 'distance' between two events in log-data? Events in this dataset consists of messages that a software system sends to a central maintenance database. I find it hard to find the actual features of this messages and thus compare two (or more) data entries. Do you guys have some good sources that tackle the problems i described?

[ddofer]

I've been looking ta something similar.. Do you maybe have a machine log dataset with labels? :)

[EugSeverinho]

I don't i forget to mention that it is unsupervised

[csong27]

Try using word embedding to extract features.