Cordon – Reduce large log files to anomalous sections
Cordon uses transformer embeddings and density scoring to identify what's semantically unique in log files, filtering out repetitive noise. The core insight: a critical error repeated 1000x is "normal" (semantically dense). A strange one-off event is anomalous (semantically isolated). Outputs XML-tagged blocks with anomaly scores. Designed to reduce large logs as a form of pre-processing for LLM analysis. Architecture: https://github.com/calebevans/cordon/blob/main/docs/architec... Benchmark:…
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Cordon is a log analysis tool that uses transformer embeddings and density scoring to identify semantically unusual sections in large log files while filtering out repetitive noise. It treats repeated errors as normal and flags isolated, unique events as anomalies. The tool outputs XML-tagged blocks with anomaly scores designed to reduce log files before feeding them to language models for analysis. It intentionally ignores repetitive patterns and uses percentile-based thresholds for scoring.
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Cordon uses transformer embeddings and density scoring to identify what's semantically unique in log files, filtering out repetitive noise. The core insight: a critical error repeated 1000x is "normal" (semantically dense). A strange one-off event is anomalous (semantically isolated). Outputs XML-tagged blocks with anomaly scores. Designed to reduce large logs as a form of pre-processing for LLM analysis. Architecture: https://github.com/calebevans/cordon/blob/main/docs/architec... Benchmark: https://github.com/calebevans/cordon/blob/main/benchmark/res... Trade-offs: intentionally ignores repetitive patterns, uses percentile-based thresholds (relative, not absolute).
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