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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

Fault diagnosis is critical in many domains, as faults may lead to safety threats or economic losses. In the field of online service systems, operators rely on enormous monitoring data to detect and mitigate failures. Quickly recognizing a…

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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…

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

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

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a quality management method that aims to systematically investigate and identify the cause-and-effect relationships of problems and their underlying causes. Traditional methods are based on the analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Lucas Possner , Lukas Bahr , Leonard Roehl , Christoph Wehner , Sophie Groeger

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

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 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

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

With the rapid development of cloud computing and ultra-large-scale data centers, the scale and complexity of systems have increased significantly, leading to frequent faults that often show cascading propagation. How to achieve efficient,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jian Hou

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

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

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

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

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

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
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