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Due to its enormous benefits, the research and industry communities have shown an increasing interest in the Microservices Architecture (MSA) style over the last few years. Despite this, there is a limited evidence-based and thorough…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Muhammad Waseem , Peng Liang , Mojtaba Shahin , Aakash Ahmad , Ali Rezaei Nasab

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

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

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) integrated with agent-based reasoning frameworks have recently shown strong potential for autonomous decision-making and system-level operations. One promising yet underexplored direction is microservice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Lingzhe Zhang , Yunpeng Zhai , Tong Jia , Chiming Duan , Minghua He , Leyi Pan , Zhaoyang Liu , Bolin Ding , Ying Li

Modern cloud-native applications built on microservice architectures present unprecedented challenges for system monitoring and alerting. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) face the daunting challenge of defining effective monitoring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Akanksha Singal , Divya Pathak , Kaustabha Ray , Felix George , Mudit Verma , Pratibha Moogi

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

As business of Alibaba expands across the world among various industries, higher standards are imposed on the service quality and reliability of big data cloud computing platforms which constitute the infrastructure of Alibaba Cloud.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yingying Zhang , Zhengxiong Guan , Huajie Qian , Leili Xu , Hengbo Liu , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun , Junwei Jiang , Lunting Fan , Min Ke

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 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

We introduce PyRCA, an open-source Python machine learning library of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). It provides a holistic framework to uncover the complicated metric causal dependencies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chenghao Liu , Wenzhuo Yang , Himanshu Mittal , Manpreet Singh , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

In large-scale online services, crucial metrics, a.k.a., key performance indicators (KPIs), are monitored periodically to check their running statuses. Generally, KPIs are aggregated along multiple dimensions and derived by complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Shifu Yan , Caihua Shan , Wenyi Yang , Bixiong Xu , Dongsheng Li , Lili Qiu , Jie Tong , Qi Zhang

Microservice Architecture (MSA) is an architectural style for service-based software systems. MSA puts a strong emphasis on high cohesion and loose coupling of the services that provide systems' functionalities. As a result of this,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Philip Nils Wizenty , Florian Rademacher , Jonas Sorgalla , Sabine Sachweh

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

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services to complex graphs of loosely-coupled microservices. Despite the advantages of modularity and elasticity microservices offer, they also complicate cluster management…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Yu Gan , Mingyu Liang , Sundar Dev , David Lo , Christina Delimitrou

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

For large-scale distributed systems, it's crucial to efficiently diagnose the root causes of incidents to maintain high system availability. The recent development of microservice architecture brings three major challenges (i.e., operation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Hanzhang Wang , Zhengkai Wu , Huai Jiang , Yichao Huang , Jiamu Wang , Selcuk Kopru , Tao Xie

Root cause analysis (RCA) in Micro-services architecture (MSA) with escalating complexity encounters complex challenges in maintaining system stability and efficiency due to fault propagation and circular dependencies among nodes. Diverse…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Wei Zhang , Hongcheng Guo , Jian Yang , Zhoujin Tian , Yi Zhang , Chaoran Yan , Zhoujun Li , Tongliang Li , Xu Shi , Liangfan Zheng , Bo Zhang

Microservice architectures are revolutionizing both small businesses and large corporations, igniting a new era of innovation with their exceptional advantages in maintainability, reusability, and scalability. However, these benefits come…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Raveen Kanishka Jayalath , Hussain Ahmad , Diksha Goel , Muhammad Shuja Syed , Faheem Ullah

Runtime failures are commonplace in modern distributed systems. When such issues arise, users often turn to platforms such as Github or JIRA to report them and request assistance. Automatically identifying the root cause of these failures…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yichen Li , Yulun Wu , Jinyang Liu , Zhihan Jiang , Zhuangbin Chen , Guangba Yu , Michael R. Lyu