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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 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

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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tingting Wang , Guilin Qi

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,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Evelien Riddell , James Riddell , Gengyi Sun , Michał Antkiewicz , Krzysztof Czarnecki

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

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

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

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

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) 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) is becoming ever more critical as modern systems grow in complexity, volume of data, and interdependencies. While traditional RCA methods frequently rely on correlation-based or rule-based techniques, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ahmed Dawoud , Shravan Talupula

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Lecheng Zheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Jingrui He , Haifeng Chen

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

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…

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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mingjie Li , Zeyan Li , Kanglin Yin , Xiaohui Nie , Wenchi Zhang , Kaixin Sui , Dan Pei

Network failure diagnosis is challenging yet critical for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Existing methods cannot be directly applied to HPC scenarios due to data heterogeneity and lack of accuracy. This paper proposes a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yongqian Sun , Xijie Pan , Xiao Xiong , Lei Tao , Jiaju Wang , Shenglin Zhang , Yuan Yuan , Yuqi Li , Kunlin Jian

To assist IT service developers and operators in managing their increasingly complex service landscapes, there is a growing effort to leverage artificial intelligence in operations. To speed up troubleshooting, log anomaly detection has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Odej Kao

Fuzzing has contributed to automatically identifying bugs and vulnerabilities in the software testing field. Although it can efficiently generate crashing inputs, these inputs are usually analyzed manually. Several root cause analysis (RCA)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Keisuke Nishimura , Yuichi Sugiyama , Yuki Koike , Masaya Motoda , Tomoya Kitagawa , Toshiki Takatera , Yuma Kurogome
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