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Microservice systems (MSS) have become a predominant architectural style for cloud services. Yet the community still lacks high-quality, publicly available datasets for anomaly detection (AD) and root cause analysis (RCA) in MSS. Most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ke Ping , Hamza Bin Mazhar , Yuqing Wang , Ying Song , Mika V. Mäntylä

In recent years, the widespread adoption of distributed microservice architectures within the industry has significantly increased the demand for enhanced system availability and robustness. Due to the complex service invocation paths and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ziming Zhao , Zhenwei Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Zhishu Shen , Hai Dong , Zhen Lei , Xingjun Ma , Gaowei Xu , Zhijun Ding , Yun Yang

Context. Microservice-based systems have gained significant attention over the past years. A critical factor for understanding and analyzing the behavior of these systems is the collection of monitoring data such as logs, metrics, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Alexander Bakhtin , Jesse Nyyssölä , Yuqing Wang , Noman Ahmad , Ke Ping , Matteo Esposito , Mika Mäntylä , Davide Taibi

In recent years, microservices have gained widespread adoption in IT operations due to their scalability, maintenance, and flexibility. However, it becomes challenging for site reliability engineers (SREs) to pinpoint the root cause due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Cheng-Ming Lin , Ching Chang , Wei-Yao Wang , Kuang-Da Wang , Wen-Chih Peng

In order to plan for failure recovery, the designers of cloud systems need to understand how their system can potentially fail. Unfortunately, analyzing the failure behavior of such systems can be very difficult and time-consuming, due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella , Nematollah Bidokhti

Microservices bring various benefits to software systems. They also bring decentralization and lose coupling across self-contained system parts. Since these systems likely evolve in a decentralized manner, they need to be monitored to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Abdullah Al Maruf , Alexander Bakhtin , Tomas Cerny , Davide Taibi

Cloud computing is ubiquitous: more and more companies are moving the workloads into the Cloud. However, this rise in popularity challenges Cloud service providers, as they need to monitor the quality of their ever-growing offerings…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Mohammad Saiful Islam , William Pourmajidi , Lei Zhang , John Steinbacher , Tony Erwin , Andriy Miranskyy

Within today's large-scale systems, one anomaly can impact millions of users. Detecting such events in real-time is essential to maintain the quality of services. It allows the monitoring team to prevent or diminish the impact of a failure.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arthur Vervaet

The complexity and dynamism of microservices pose significant challenges to system reliability, and thereby, automated troubleshooting is crucial. Effective root cause localization after anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Cheryl Lee , Tianyi Yang , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Cloud-native microservices enable rapid iteration and scalable deployment but also create complex, fast-evolving dependencies that challenge reliable diagnosis. Existing root cause analysis (RCA) approaches, even with multi-modal fusion of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Songhan Zhang , Aoyang Fang , Yifan Yang , Ruiyi Cheng , Xiaoying Tang , Pinjia He

This paper introduces a scalable Anomaly Detection Service with a generalizable API tailored for industrial time-series data, designed to assist Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) in managing cloud infrastructure. The service enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Nimesh Jha , Shuxin Lin , Srideepika Jayaraman , Kyle Frohling , Christodoulos Constantinides , Dhaval Patel

Availability issues of industrial microservice systems (e.g., drop of successfully placed orders and processed transactions) directly affect the running of the business. These issues are usually caused by various types of service anomalies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dewei Liu , Chuan He , Xin Peng , Fan Lin , Chenxi Zhang , Shengfang Gong , Ziang Li , Jiayu Ou , Zheshun Wu

Anomaly detection is a branch of data analysis and machine learning which aims at identifying observations that exhibit abnormal behaviour. Be it measurement errors, disease development, severe weather, production quality default(s) (items)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-11 Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Romain Valla

Serverless computing has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

Deviations from expected behavior during runtime, known as anomalies, have become more common due to the systems' complexity, especially for microservices. Consequently, analyzing runtime monitoring data, such as logs, traces for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Monika Steidl , Benedikt Dornauer , Michael Felderer , Rudolf Ramler , Mircea-Cristian Racasan , Marko Gattringer

Due to a wide spectrum of applications in the real world, such as security, financial surveillance, and health risk, various deep anomaly detection models have been proposed and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, besides being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xiao Han , Lu Zhang , Yongkai Wu , Shuhan Yuan

Detecting and resolving performance anomalies in Cloud services is crucial for maintaining desired performance objectives. Scaling actions triggered by an anomaly detector help achieve target latency at the cost of extra resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Gabriel Job Antunes Grabher , Fumio Machida , Thomas Ropars

Many small to large organizations have adopted the Microservices Architecture (MSA) style to develop and deliver their core businesses. Despite the popularity of MSA in the software industry, there is a limited evidence-based and thorough…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Muhammad Waseem , Peng Liang , Aakash Ahmad , Arif Ali Khan , Mojtaba Shahin , Pekka Abrahamsson , Ali Rezaei Nasab , Tommi Mikkonen

The recent increase in the scale and complexity of software systems has introduced new challenges to the time series monitoring and anomaly detection process. A major drawback of existing anomaly detection methods is that they lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Sayan Chakraborty , Smit Shah , Kiumars Soltani , Anna Swigart

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services to complex graphs of loosely-coupled microservices. Despite the advantages of modularity and elasticity microservices offer, they also complicate cluster management…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Yu Gan , Mingyu Liang , Sundar Dev , David Lo , Christina Delimitrou