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While cloud-native microservice architectures have revolutionized software development, their inherent operational complexity makes failure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) a critical yet challenging task. Numerous data-driven RCA models have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aoyang Fang , Songhan Zhang , Yifan Yang , Haotong Wu , Junjielong Xu , Xuyang Wang , Rui Wang , Manyi Wang , Qisheng Lu , Pinjia He

Root cause analysis (RCA) in networked industrial systems, such as supply chains and power networks, is notoriously difficult due to unknown and dynamically evolving interdependencies among geographically distributed clients. These clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ayush Mohanty , Paritosh Ramanan , Nagi Gebraeel

We introduce PyRCA, an open-source Python machine learning library of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). It provides a holistic framework to uncover the complicated metric causal dependencies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chenghao Liu , Wenzhuo Yang , Himanshu Mittal , Manpreet Singh , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

This paper presents MicroRCA-Agent, an innovative solution for microservice root cause analysis based on large language model agents, which constructs an intelligent fault root cause localization system with multimodal data fusion. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Pan Tang , Shixiang Tang , Huanqi Pu , Zhiqing Miao , Zhixing Wang

Network failure diagnosis is challenging yet critical for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Existing methods cannot be directly applied to HPC scenarios due to data heterogeneity and lack of accuracy. This paper proposes a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yongqian Sun , Xijie Pan , Xiao Xiong , Lei Tao , Jiaju Wang , Shenglin Zhang , Yuan Yuan , Yuqi Li , Kunlin Jian

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

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is becoming increasingly crucial for ensuring the reliability of microservice systems. However, performing RCA on modern microservice systems can be challenging due to their large scale, as they usually comprise…

Ensuring the reliability and availability of cloud services necessitates efficient root cause analysis (RCA) for cloud incidents. Traditional RCA methods, which rely on manual investigations of data sources such as logs and traces, are…

Root cause analysis (RCA) in microservice systems is challenging, requiring on-call engineers to rapidly diagnose failures across heterogeneous telemetry such as metrics, logs, and traces. Traditional RCA methods often focus on single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yifang Tian , Yaming Liu , Zichun Chong , Zihang Huang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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

Fuzzing has contributed to automatically identifying bugs and vulnerabilities in the software testing field. Although it can efficiently generate crashing inputs, these inputs are usually analyzed manually. Several root cause analysis (RCA)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Keisuke Nishimura , Yuichi Sugiyama , Yuki Koike , Masaya Motoda , Tomoya Kitagawa , Toshiki Takatera , Yuma Kurogome

Ensuring the reliability and availability of complex networked services demands effective root cause analysis (RCA) across cloud environments, data centers, and on-premises networks. Traditional RCA methods, which involve manual inspection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Alexander Shan , Jasleen Kaur , Rahul Singh , Tarun Banka , Raj Yavatkar , T. Sridhar

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is essential for pinpointing the root causes of failures in microservice systems. Traditional data-driven RCA methods are typically limited to offline applications due to high computational demands, and existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Lecheng Zheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Haifeng Chen

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is becoming ever more critical as modern systems grow in complexity, volume of data, and interdependencies. While traditional RCA methods frequently rely on correlation-based or rule-based techniques, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ahmed Dawoud , Shravan Talupula

Root cause localization in cloud native microservice systems requires modeling complex service dependencies, irregular temporal dynamics, and heterogeneous observability data. We present HyperODE RCA, a unified framework that combines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xin Liu , Yuhang He , Sichen Zhao , Kejian Tong , Xingyu Zhang

Today's cloud-hosted applications and services are complex systems, and a performance or functional instability can have dozens or hundreds of potential root causes. Our hypothesis is that by combining the pattern matching capabilities of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yifan Wang , Kenneth P. Birman

Root cause analysis in a large-scale production environment is challenging due to the complexity of services running across global data centers. Due to the distributed nature of a large-scale system, the various hardware, software, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Fred Lin , Keyur Muzumdar , Nikolay Pavlovich Laptev , Mihai-Valentin Curelea , Seunghak Lee , Sriram Sankar

Cloud-native architecture is becoming increasingly crucial for today's cloud computing environments due to the need for speed and flexibility in developing applications. It utilizes microservice technology to break down traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Minxian Xu , Lei Yang , Yang Wang , Chengxi Gao , Linfeng Wen , Guoyao Xu , Liping Zhang , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

Effective root cause analysis (RCA) is vital for swiftly restoring services, minimizing losses, and ensuring the smooth operation and management of complex systems. Previous data-driven RCA methods, particularly those employing causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Lecheng Zheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Jingrui He , Haifeng Chen

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) plays an indispensable role in distributed data system maintenance and operations, as it bridges the gap between fault detection and system recovery. Existing works mainly study multidimensional localization or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Chaoyu Chen , Hang Yu , Zhichao Lei , Jianguo Li , Shaokang Ren , Tingkai Zhang , Silin Hu , Jianchao Wang , Wenhui Shi