Methods and systems for alerting based on event classification and for automatic event classification

A system and methods for classification of events, the system including a memory, a network interface, and a processor configured to monitor system events via the network interface and store the system events as an event log in the memory, collect information about events from various web resources, extract, from the event log and the collected event information, labeling data including data about urgency of events and generate, based on the extracted labeling data, labeling data structures ascribing labels to respective events, extract, from the event log and the collected event information, event features data and generate, based on the extracted event features data, event features data structures ascribing features to respective events, and formulate decision rule structures for identification of urgent events based on the labeling data structures and the event features data structures.