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Microservices have become a popular architectural style for data-driven applications, given their ability to functionally decompose an application into small and autonomous services to achieve scalability, strong isolation, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Rodrigo Laigner , Yongluan Zhou , Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles , Yijian Liu , Marcos Kalinowski

Effectively localizing root causes of performance anomalies is crucial to enabling the rapid recovery and loss mitigation of microservice applications in the cloud. Depending on the granularity of the causes that can be localized, a service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ruyue Xin , Peng Chen , Zhiming Zhao

Runtime failure and performance degradation is commonplace in modern cloud systems. For cloud providers, automatically determining the root cause of incidents is paramount to ensuring high reliability and availability as prompt fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhiqiang Xie , Yujia Zheng , Lizi Ottens , Kun Zhang , Christos Kozyrakis , Jonathan Mace

To run a cloud application with the required service quality, operators have to continuously monitor the cloud application's run-time status, detect potential performance anomalies, and diagnose the root causes of anomalies. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Ruyue Xin , Hongyun Liu , Peng Chen , Paola Grosso , Zhiming Zhao

Diagnosing the root cause of an anomaly in a complex interconnected system is a pressing problem in today's cloud services and industrial operations. We propose In-Distribution Interventions (IDI), a novel algorithm that predicts root cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Lokesh Nagalapatti , Ashutosh Srivastava , Sunita Sarawagi , Amit Sharma

Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Leman Akoglu , Hanghang Tong , Danai Koutra

Low latency and high availability of an app or a web service are key, amongst other factors, to the overall user experience (which in turn directly impacts the bottomline). Exogenic and/or endogenic factors often give rise to breakouts in…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-01 Nicholas A. James , Arun Kejariwal , David S. Matteson

Modern cloud applications delivering global services are often built on distributed systems with a microservice architecture. In such systems, end-to-end user requests traverse multiple different services and machines, exhibiting intricate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zhiling Deng , Juepeng Wang , Zhuangbin Chen

Cybersecurity attacks in Cloud data centres are increasing alongside the growth of the Cloud services market. Existing research proposes a number of anomaly detection systems for detecting such attacks. However, these systems encounter a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Sakil Barbhuiya , Zafeirios Papazachos , Peter Kilpatrick , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Microservice root cause localization is fundamentally challenged by the inherent heterogeneity of cloud-native systems, which encompasses diverse observability data and multiple system entities. Existing approaches typically focus on only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Runzhou Wang , Shenglin Zhang , Wenwei Gu , Yongxin Zhao , Chenyu Zhao , Dan Pei , Yuxuan Chen , Yangyuxin Huang

Root cause analysis in microservice systems typically involves two core tasks: root cause localization (RCL) and failure type identification (FTI). Despite substantial research efforts, conventional diagnostic approaches still face two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuaiyu Xie , Hanbin He , Jian Wang , Bing Li

Designing software compatible with cloud-based Microservice Architectures (MSAs) is vital due to the performance, scalability, and availability limitations. As the complexity of a system increases, it is subject to deprecation, difficulties…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Thakshila Imiya Mohottige , Artem Polyvyanyy , Rajkumar Buyya , Colin Fidge , Alistair Barros

The increasing automation in many areas of the Industry expressly demands to design efficient machine-learning solutions for the detection of abnormal events. With the ubiquitous deployment of sensors monitoring nearly continuously the…

Anomaly detection systems aim to detect and report attacks or unexpected behavior in networked systems. Previous work has shown that anomalies have an impact on system performance, and that performance signatures can be effectively used for…

Microservice systems have become the backbone of cloud-native enterprise applications due to their resource elasticity, loosely coupled architecture, and lightweight deployment. Yet, the intrinsic complexity and dynamic runtime interactions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Yunpeng Zhai , Leyi Pan , Chiming Duan , Minghua He , Pei Xiao , Ying Li

The study assesses the impact of cloud-based microservices architectures on application performance. Several aspects of performance evaluation are discussed, including response time, throughput, scalability, and reliability. This article…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ganesh Chowdary Desina

Microservice-based cloud applications face changing workloads, evolving request paths, variable network conditions, interference, and failures. These dynamics couple autoscaling, placement, routing, isolation, and remediation. The survey…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ming Chen , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Maria Rodriguez Read , Rajkumar Buyya

Diagnosing problems in Internet-scale services remains particularly difficult and costly for both content providers and ISPs. Because the Internet is decentralized, the cause of such problems might lie anywhere between an end-user's device…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Loïck Bonniot , Christoph Neumann , François Taïani

Anomalies or failures in large computer systems, such as the cloud, have an impact on a large number of users that communicate, compute, and store information. Therefore, timely and accurate anomaly detection is necessary for reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Harold Ott , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Sasho Nedelkoski , Odej Kao

Anomaly detection is generally acknowledged as an important problem that has already drawn attention to various domains and research areas, such as, network security. For such "classic" application domains a wide range of surveys and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Kristof Böhmer , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma