US Patent 8209567 Message clustering of system event logs

An automated method of processing computer system event logs comprises receiving event messages associated with one or more system event logs, each event message including event text, determining a set of message clusters, each comprising a template text, representative of the event messages across the one or more event logs, and assigning each event message to a message cluster of the set, according to a measure of similarity between the respective event text of the event message and the template text of the message cluster.