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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

The task of root cause analysis (RCA) is to identify the root causes of system faults/failures by analyzing system monitoring data. Efficient RCA can greatly accelerate system failure recovery and mitigate system damages or financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjie Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Yanjie Fu , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen

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 is one of the most crucial operations in software reliability regarding system performance diagnostic. It aims to identify the root causes of system performance anomalies, allowing the resolution or the future prevention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Andrea Tonon , Meng Zhang , Bora Caglayan , Fei Shen , Tong Gui , MingXue Wang , Rong Zhou

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

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) aims at identifying the underlying causes of system faults by uncovering and analyzing the causal structure from complex systems. It has been widely used in many application domains. Reliable diagnostic conclusions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chang Gong , Di Yao , Jin Wang , Wenbin Li , Lanting Fang , Yongtao Xie , Kaiyu Feng , Peng Han , Jingping Bi

To assist IT service developers and operators in managing their increasingly complex service landscapes, there is a growing effort to leverage artificial intelligence in operations. To speed up troubleshooting, log anomaly detection has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Odej Kao

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of any service-disrupting incident is one of the most critical as well as complex tasks in IT processes, especially for cloud industry leaders like Salesforce. Typically RCA investigation leverages data-sources…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Amrita Saha , Steven C. H. Hoi

Recent rapid advancements of machine learning have greatly enhanced the accuracy of prediction models, but most models remain "black boxes", making prediction error diagnosis challenging, especially with outliers. This lack of transparency…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 Hiroshi Yokoyama , Ryusei Shingaki , Kaneharu Nishino , Shohei Shimizu , Thong Pham

Modern applications are built as large, distributed systems spanning numerous modules, teams, and data centers. Despite robust engineering and recovery strategies, failures and performance issues remain inevitable, risking significant…

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a crucial aspect of incident management in large-scale cloud services. While the term root cause analysis or RCA has been widely used, different studies formulate the task differently. This is because the term…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aoyang Fang , Haowen Yang , Haoze Dong , Qisheng Lu , Junjielong Xu , Pinjia He

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in the manufacturing of electric vehicles is the process of identifying fault causes. Traditionally, the RCA is conducted manually, relying on process expert knowledge. Meanwhile, sensor networks collect…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Christoph Wehner , Maximilian Kertel , Judith Wewerka

The complex dependencies and propagative faults inherent in microservices, characterized by a dense network of interconnected services, pose significant challenges in identifying the underlying causes of issues. Prompt identification and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tingting Wang , Guilin Qi

The dynamics and complexity of cloud-native systems present significant challenges for Root Cause Analysis (RCA). While causality-based RCA methods have shown significant progress in recent years, their practical adoption is fundamentally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shuai Liang , Pengfei Chen , Bozhe Tian , Gou Tan , Maohong Xu , Youjun Qu , Yahui Zhao , Yiduo Shang , Chongkang Tan

Causal analysis is a crucial task in many domains, including manufacturing, social science, and medicine. However, despite recent progress, the conceptual and methodological complexity of causal methods makes them largely inaccessible to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Phi Nguyen Xuan , Nicholas Tagliapietra , Lavdim Halilaj , Kristian Kersting , Juergen Luettin

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

Identifying a causal model of an IT system is fundamental to many branches of systems engineering and operation. Such a model can be used to predict the effects of control actions, optimize operations, diagnose failures, detect intrusions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kim Hammar , Rolf Stadler

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

The goal of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is to explain why an anomaly occurred by identifying where the fault originated. Several recent works model the anomalous event as resulting from a change in the causal mechanism at the root cause,…

Root cause analysis (RCA) in complex systems is challenging due to error propagation across multiple variables, the need for structural causal knowledge, and the computational cost of inference at test time. We introduce PRIM (Prior-fitted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Christopher Lohse , Anish Dhir , Amadou Ba , Bradley Eck , Marco Ruffini , Jonas Wahl
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