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Ensuring the reliability and availability of cloud services necessitates efficient root cause analysis (RCA) for cloud incidents. Traditional RCA methods, which rely on manual investigations of data sources such as logs and traces, are…

Root cause analysis (RCA) is essential for diagnosing failures within complex software systems to ensure system reliability. The highly distributed and interdependent nature of modern cloud-based systems often complicates RCA efforts,…

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Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in mobile networks remains a challenging task due to the need for interpretability, domain expertise, and causal reasoning. In this work, we propose a lightweight framework that leverages Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mohamed Sana , Nicola Piovesan , Antonio De Domenico , Yibin Kang , Haozhe Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Fadhel Ayed

Large language model (LLM) applications in cloud root cause analysis (RCA) have been actively explored recently. However, current methods are still reliant on manual workflow settings and do not unleash LLMs' decision-making and environment…

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The growing complexity of cloud based software systems has resulted in incident management becoming an integral part of the software development lifecycle. Root cause analysis (RCA), a critical part of the incident management process, is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Devjeet Roy , Xuchao Zhang , Rashi Bhave , Chetan Bansal , Pedro Las-Casas , Rodrigo Fonseca , Saravan Rajmohan

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) plays a pivotal role in the incident diagnosis process for cloud services, requiring on-call engineers to identify the primary issues and implement corrective actions to prevent future recurrences. Improving the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xuchao Zhang , Supriyo Ghosh , Chetan Bansal , Rujia Wang , Minghua Ma , Yu Kang , Saravan Rajmohan

Communications networks now form the backbone of our digital world, with fast and reliable connectivity. However, even with appropriate redundancy and failover mechanisms, it is difficult to guarantee "five 9s" (99.999 %) reliability,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nguyen Phuc Tran , Brigitte Jaumard , Oscar Delgado , Tristan Glatard , Karthikeyan Premkumar , Kun Ni

Large-scale telecom and datacenter infrastructures rely on multi-layered service and resource models, where failures propagate across physical and logical components and affect multiple customers. Traditional approaches to root cause…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Nicolas Tacheny

Root cause localization remain challenging in complex and large-scale microservice architectures. The complex fault propagation among microservices and the high dimensionality of telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces, limit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Liming Zhou , Ailing Liu , Hongwei Liu , Min He , Heng Zhang

Root cause analysis (RCA) is crucial for enhancing the reliability and performance of complex systems. However, progress in this field has been hindered by the lack of large-scale, open-source datasets tailored for RCA. To bridge this gap,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lecheng Zheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Dongjie Wang , Chengyuan Deng , Reon Matsuoka , Haifeng Chen

Root cause analysis (RCA) for incidents in large-scale cloud systems is a complex, knowledge-intensive task that often requires significant manual effort from on-call engineers (OCEs). Improving RCA is vital for accelerating the incident…

Large language model (LLM) services have become an integral part of search, assistance, and decision-making applications. However, unlike traditional web or microservices, the hardware and software stack enabling LLM inference deployment is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dominik Scheinert , Alexander Acker , Thorsten Wittkopp , Soeren Becker , Hamza Yous , Karnakar Reddy , Ibrahim Farhat , Hakim Hacid , Odej Kao

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

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

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

In clinical decision-making, predictive models face a persistent trade-off: accurate models are often opaque "black boxes," while interpretable methods frequently lack predictive precision or statistical grounding. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zijian Shao , Haiyang Shen , Mugeng Liu , Gecheng Fu , Yaoqi Guo , Yanfeng Wang , Yun Ma

Incident response plays a pivotal role in mitigating the impact of cyber attacks. In recent years, the intensity and complexity of global cyber threats have grown significantly, making it increasingly challenging for traditional threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Xihuan Lin , Jie Zhang , Gelei Deng , Tianzhe Liu , Tianwei Zhang , Qing Guo , Riqing Chen

Failures in large-scale cloud systems incur substantial financial losses, making automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) essential for operational stability. Recent efforts leverage Large Language Model (LLM) agents to automate this task, yet…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Taeyoon Kim , Woohyeok Park , Hoyeong Yun , Kyungyong Lee

The validity of medical studies based on real-world clinical data, such as observational studies, depends on critical assumptions necessary for drawing causal conclusions about medical interventions. Many published studies are flawed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ahmed Alaa , Rachael V. Phillips , Emre Kıcıman , Laura B. Balzer , Mark van der Laan , Maya Petersen

Major cloud providers have employed advanced AI-based solutions like large language models to aid humans in identifying the root causes of cloud incidents. Despite the growing prevalence of AI-driven assistants in the root cause analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Dylan Zhang , Xuchao Zhang , Chetan Bansal , Pedro Las-Casas , Rodrigo Fonseca , Saravan Rajmohan
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