Abstract: The present subject matter discloses a method for predicting failure of hardware components. The method comprises obtaining a syslog file stored in a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), where the syslog file includes at least one or more syslog messages. Further, the method comprises categorizing each of the one or more syslog messages into one or more groups based on a hardware component generating the syslog message. Further, a current dataset comprising one or more records based on the categorization is generated, where each of the one or more records include a syslog message from amongst the one or more syslog messages. The method further comprises analysing the current dataset for identifying at least one error pattern of syslog messages, based on a plurality of error patterns of reference syslog messages, for predicting failure of the hardware components.