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Microservice systems expose rich telemetry streams, including metrics, logs, and distributed traces. Existing performance anomaly detection methods increasingly model these systems as graphs, where nodes represent services and edges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yunjian Ma

Large scale cloud services use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for tracking and monitoring performance. They usually have Service Level Objectives (SLOs) baked into the customer agreements which are tied to these KPIs. Dependency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Chetan Bansal , Sundararajan Renganathan , Ashima Asudani , Olivier Midy , Mathru Janakiraman

Microservices based architectures are based on a set of modular, independent and fault-tolerant services. In recent years, the software engineering community presented studies investigating potential, recurrent, effective architectural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mohammad Imranur , Rahman , Sebastiano Panichella , Davide Taibi

Microservice applications are created as loosely coupled application components and they leverage cloud elasticity to reduce costs and increase development speed. However, microservice applications exhibit complex interactions among…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minxian Xu , Junhan Liao , Linfeng Wen , Huaming Wu , Kejiang Ye , Rajkumar Buyya , Chengzhong Xu

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

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

Serverless becomes popular as a novel computing paradigms for cloud native services. However, the complexity and dynamic nature of serverless applications present significant challenges to ensure system availability and performance. There…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jin Huang , Pengfei Chen , Guangba Yu , Yilun Wang , Haiyu Huang , Zilong He

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

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…

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 execution of similar units can be compared by their internal behaviors to determine the causes of their potential performance issues. For instance, by examining the internal behaviors of different fast or slow web requests more closely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Quentin Fournier , Naser Ezzati-Jivan , Daniel Aloise , Michel R. Dagenais

The transition to microservices has revolutionized software architectures, offering enhanced scalability and modularity. However, the distributed and dynamic nature of microservices introduces complexities in ensuring system reliability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Lahiru Akmeemana , Chamodya Attanayake , Husni Faiz , Sandareka Wickramanayake

In todays digital landscape, end-user feedback plays a crucial role in the evolution of software applications, particularly in addressing issues that hinder user experience. While much research has focused on high-rated applications,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Nek Dil Khan , Javed Ali Khan , Darvesh Khan , Jianqiang Li , Mumrez Khan , Shah Fahad Khan

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

Cloud application services are distributed in nature and have components across the stack working together to deliver the experience to end users. The wide adoption of microservice architecture exacerbates failure management due to…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dhanya R Mathews , Mudit Verma , Pooja Aggarwal , J. Lakshmi

Performance debugging in production is a fundamental activity in modern service-based systems. The diagnosis of performance issues is often time-consuming, since it requires thorough inspection of large volumes of traces and performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Luca Traini , Vittorio Cortellessa

This paper proposes a supervised machine learning approach for predicting the root cause of a given bug report. Knowing the root cause of a bug can help developers in the debugging process - either directly or indirectly by choosing proper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

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

Curating a large scale medical imaging dataset for machine learning applications is both time consuming and expensive. Balancing the workload between model development, data collection and annotations is difficult for machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Athanasios Vlontzos , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz

Detecting performance issues and identifying their root causes in the runtime is a challenging task. Typically, developers use methods such as logging and tracing to identify bottlenecks. These solutions are, however, not ideal as they are…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Sneh Patel , Brendan Park , Naser Ezzati-Jivan , Quentin Fournier