A job analyzing method includes classifying jobs in log data in accordance with a time segment to which an end time of each of the jobs belongs; generating, for first jobs included in a first time segment, first data indicating an execution sequence relation between the first jobs based on end time of the jobs, and generating, for second jobs included in a second time segment succeeding the first time segment, second data indicating an execution sequence relation between the second jobs based on end time of the second jobs; and analyzing an execution sequence relation between the first and second jobs based on the end time of the first jobs and the end time of the second jobs, and generating data indicating the execution sequence relation between the first and second jobs across the first and second time segments.