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Detecting failures and identifying their root causes promptly and accurately is crucial for ensuring the availability of microservice systems. A typical failure troubleshooting pipeline for microservices consists of two phases: anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Luan Pham , Huong Ha , Hongyu Zhang

AI-based monitoring has become crucial for cloud-based services due to its scale. A common approach to AI-based monitoring is to detect causal relationships among service components and build a causal graph. Availability of domain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Sarthak Chakraborty , Shaddy Garg , Shubham Agarwal , Ayush Chauhan , Shiv Kumar Saini

Root cause analysis (RCA) for microservice systems has gained significant attention in recent years. However, there is still no standard benchmark that includes large-scale datasets and supports comprehensive evaluation environments. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Luan Pham , Hongyu Zhang , Huong Ha , Flora Salim , Xiuzhen Zhang

Performance monitoring, anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis in complex cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are often highly intractable due to widely diverse operational modes, disparate data types, and complex fault propagation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Chao Liu , Kin Gwn Lore , Zhanhong Jiang , Soumik Sarkar

Identifying root causes for unexpected or undesirable behavior in complex systems is a prevalent challenge. This issue becomes especially crucial in modern cloud applications that employ numerous microservices. Although the machine learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Michaela Hardt , William R. Orchard , Patrick Blöbaum , Shiva Kasiviswanathan , Elke Kirschbaum

With the development of cloud-native technologies, microservice-based software systems face challenges in accurately localizing root causes when failures occur. Additionally, the cloud-edge collaborative environment introduces more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuhan Zhu , Jian Wang , Bing Li , Xuxian Tang , Hao Li , Neng Zhang , Yuqi Zhao

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

This paper focuses on intelligent routing in microservice systems and proposes an end-to-end optimization framework based on graph neural networks. The goal is to improve routing decision efficiency and overall system performance under…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chenrui Hu , Ziyu Cheng , Di Wu , Yuxiao Wang , Feng Liu , Zhimin Qiu

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

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

This paper introduces a new structural causal model tailored for representing threshold-based IT systems and presents a new algorithm designed to rapidly detect root causes of anomalies in such systems. When root causes are not causally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Lei Zan , Charles K. Assaad , Emilie Devijver , Eric Gaussier , Ali Aït-Bachir

Hypergraphs are generalisation of graphs in which a hyperedge can connect any number of vertices. It can describe n-ary relationships and high-order information among entities compared to conventional graphs. In this paper, we study the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhengyi Yang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Ying Zhang , Shunyang Li

Modern distributed cyber-physical systems encounter a large variety of anomalies and in many cases, they are vulnerable to catastrophic fault propagation scenarios due to strong connectivity among the sub-systems. In this regard, root-cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Chao Liu , Kin Gwn Lore , Soumik Sarkar

We present ChronoGraph, a graph-structured multivariate time series forecasting dataset built from real-world production microservices. Each node is a service that emits a multivariate stream of system-level performance metrics, capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Adrian Catalin Lutu , Ioana Pintilie , Elena Burceanu , Andrei Manolache

Microservice architecture has become a dominant paradigm in application development due to its advantages of being lightweight, flexible, and resilient. Deploying microservice applications in the container-based cloud enables fine-grained…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhengxin Fang , Hui Ma , Gang Chen , Rajkumar Buyya

As multi-agent AI systems are increasingly deployed in real-world settings - from automated customer support to DevOps remediation - failures become harder to diagnose due to cascading effects, hidden dependencies, and long execution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhaohui Geoffrey Wang

Traces and logs serve as the backbone of observability in microservice architectures, yet their sheer volume imposes prohibitive storage and computational burdens. To reduce overhead, operators rely on sampling; however, current frameworks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhouruixing Zhu , Zhihan Jiang , Tianyi Yang , Pinjia He

Unstructured meshes present challenges in scientific data analysis due to irregular distribution and complex connectivity. Computing and storing connectivity information is a major bottleneck for visualization algorithms, affecting both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Guoxi Liu , Thomas Randall , Rong Ge , Federico Iuricich

An effective auto-scaling framework is essential for microservices to ensure performance stability and resource efficiency under dynamic workloads. As revealed by many prior studies, the key to efficient auto-scaling lies in accurately…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Qin Hua , Dingyu Yang , Shiyou Qian , Jian Cao , Guangtao Xue , Minglu Li

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar