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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

Large language model (LLM) applications in cloud root cause analysis (RCA) have been actively explored recently. However, current methods are still reliant on manual workflow settings and do not unleash LLMs' decision-making and environment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Zefan Wang , Zichuan Liu , Yingying Zhang , Aoxiao Zhong , Jihong Wang , Fengbin Yin , Lunting Fan , Lingfei Wu , Qingsong Wen

Traditional banks face significant challenges in digital transformation, primarily due to legacy system constraints and fragmented ownership. Recent incidents show that such fragmentation often results in superficial incident resolutions,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Siyuan Jin , Zhendong Bei , Bichao Chen , Yong Xia

Fault localization is challenging in online micro-service due to the wide variety of monitoring data volume, types, events and complex interdependencies in service and components. Faults events in services are propagative and can trigger a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tingting Wang , Guilin Qi , Tianxing Wu

Localizing the root cause of network faults is crucial to network operation and maintenance. However, due to the complicated network architectures and wireless environments, as well as limited labeled data, accurately localizing the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chaoli Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhou , Yingying Zhang , Linxiao Yang , Kai He , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun

In healthcare, thousands of safety incidents occur every year, but learning from these incidents is not effectively aggregated. Analysing incident reports using AI could uncover critical insights to prevent harm by identifying recurring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Georgina Cosma , Mohit Kumar Singh , Patrick Waterson , Gyuchan Thomas Jun , Jonathan Back

IT infrastructure is a crucial part in most of today's business operations. High availability and reliability, and short response times to outages are essential. Thus a high amount of tool support and automation in risk management is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Joerg Schoenfisch , Janno von Stulpnagel , Jens Ortmann , Christian Meilicke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

While fuzzing has demonstrated its effectiveness in exposing vulnerabilities within embedded firmware, the discovery of crashing test cases is only the first step in improving the security of these critical systems. The subsequent fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Boyu Chang , Binbin Zhao , Qiao Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Yuan Tian , Raheem Beyah , Shouling Ji

Root cause analysis (RCA) for time-series anomaly detection is critical for the reliable operation of complex real-world systems. Existing explanation methods often rely on unrealistic feature perturbations and ignore temporal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shashank Mishra , Karan Patil , Cedric Schockaert , Didier Stricker , Jason Rambach

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

Cloud-based services are surging into popularity in recent years. However, outages, i.e., severe incidents that always impact multiple services, can dramatically affect user experience and incur severe economic losses. Locating the…

With the continued migration of storage to cloud database systems,the impact of slow queries in such systems on services and user experience is increasing. Root-cause diagnosis plays an indispensable role in facilitating slow-query…

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in mobile networks remains a challenging task due to the need for interpretability, domain expertise, and causal reasoning. In this work, we propose a lightweight framework that leverages Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mohamed Sana , Nicola Piovesan , Antonio De Domenico , Yibin Kang , Haozhe Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Fadhel Ayed

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled early attempts to automate root cause analysis (RCA) in microservice-based systems (MSS). Yet, prior works typically rely on a linear reasoning process that proceeds along a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Alexander Naakka , Yuqing Wang , Mika V Mäntylä

Causal analysis on relational databases is challenging, as analysis datasets must be repeatedly queried from complex schemas. Recent LLM systems can automate individual steps, but they hardly manage dependencies across analysis stages,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Joanie Hayoun Chung , Sumin Lee , Sungbin Lim

Existing multi-source root cause analysis (RCA) methods for microservice systems assume all services have traces to construct a service call graph. However, this assumption is not practical as microservice systems evolve rapidly and may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Luan Pham , Huong Ha , Xiuzhen Zhang , Hongyu Zhang

Incident management for large cloud services is a complex and tedious process and requires significant amount of manual efforts from on-call engineers (OCEs). OCEs typically leverage data from different stages of the software development…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Drishti Goel , Fiza Husain , Aditya Singh , Supriyo Ghosh , Anjaly Parayil , Chetan Bansal , Xuchao Zhang , Saravan Rajmohan

Purpose To evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in performing root cause analysis (RCA) of radiation oncology incidents using narrative reports from the Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System (RO-ILS),…

Microservice architecture has become a popular architecture adopted by many cloud applications. However, identifying the root cause of a failure in microservice systems is still a challenging and time-consuming task. In recent years,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Luan Pham , Huong Ha , Hongyu Zhang

Runtime nondeterminism is a fact of life in modern database applications. Previous research has shown that nondeterminism can cause applications to intermittently crash, become unresponsive, or experience data corruption. We propose…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Anna Fariha , Suman Nath , Alexandra Meliou