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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

Root cause analysis is one of the most crucial operations in software reliability regarding system performance diagnostic. It aims to identify the root causes of system performance anomalies, allowing the resolution or the future prevention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Andrea Tonon , Meng Zhang , Bora Caglayan , Fei Shen , Tong Gui , MingXue Wang , Rong Zhou

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…

The transition to agentic Root Cause Analysis (RCA) necessitates benchmarks that evaluate active reasoning rather than passive classification. However, current frameworks fail to reconcile ecological validity with reproducibility. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yilun Wang , Guangba Yu , Haiyu Huang , Zirui Wang , Yujie Huang , Pengfei Chen , Michael R. Lyu

Advancements in data-driven machine learning have emerged as a pivotal element in supporting automotive software systems (ASSs) engineering across various levels of the V-development process.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammad Abboush , Ehab Ghannoum , Andreas Rausch

To ensure the reliability of cloud systems, their performance is monitored using KPIs (key performance indicators). When issues arise, root cause localization identifies KPIs responsible for service degradation, aiding in quick diagnosis…

Cloud application services are distributed in nature and have components across the stack working together to deliver the experience to end users. The wide adoption of microservice architecture exacerbates failure management due to…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dhanya R Mathews , Mudit Verma , Pooja Aggarwal , J. Lakshmi

Today's cloud-hosted applications and services are complex systems, and a performance or functional instability can have dozens or hundreds of potential root causes. Our hypothesis is that by combining the pattern matching capabilities of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yifan Wang , Kenneth P. Birman

This paper considers the problem of nonstationary process monitoring under frequently varying operating conditions. Traditional approaches generally misidentify the normal dynamic deviations as faults and thus lead to high false alarms.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Jingxin Zhang , Donghua Zhou , Maoyin Chen

Microservice systems have become the backbone of cloud-native enterprise applications due to their resource elasticity, loosely coupled architecture, and lightweight deployment. Yet, the intrinsic complexity and dynamic runtime interactions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Yunpeng Zhai , Leyi Pan , Chiming Duan , Minghua He , Pei Xiao , Ying Li

Fault localization is challenging in online micro-service due to the wide variety of monitoring data volume, types, events and complex interdependencies in service and components. Faults events in services are propagative and can trigger a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tingting Wang , Guilin Qi , Tianxing Wu

Holistic analysis of many real-world problems are based on data collected from multiple sources contributing to some aspect of that problem. The word fusion has also been used in the literature for such problems involving disparate data…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Abhishek Santra , Sanjukta Bhowmick , Sharma Chakravarthy

Automation and computer intelligence to support complex human decisions becomes essential to manage large and distributed systems in the Cloud and IoT era. Understanding the root cause of an observed symptom in a complex system has been a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Marc Solé , Victor Muntés-Mulero , Annie Ibrahim Rana , Giovani Estrada

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

In recent years, the widespread adoption of distributed microservice architectures within the industry has significantly increased the demand for enhanced system availability and robustness. Due to the complex service invocation paths and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ziming Zhao , Zhenwei Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Zhishu Shen , Hai Dong , Zhen Lei , Xingjun Ma , Gaowei Xu , Zhijun Ding , Yun Yang

Context: As Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) become more connected and widely-distributed, often operating in safety-critical environments, we require innovative approaches to detect and diagnose the faults that occur in them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Barry Dowdeswell , Roopak Sinha , Stephen G. MacDonell

Detecting anomalies and the corresponding root causes in multivariate time series plays an important role in monitoring the behaviors of various real-world systems, e.g., IT system operations or manufacturing industry. Previous anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Wenzhuo Yang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Root cause analysis in a large-scale production environment is challenging due to the complexity of services running across global data centers. Due to the distributed nature of a large-scale system, the various hardware, software, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Fred Lin , Keyur Muzumdar , Nikolay Pavlovich Laptev , Mihai-Valentin Curelea , Seunghak Lee , Sriram Sankar

Despite engineering workflows that aim to prevent buggy code from being deployed, bugs still make their way into the Facebook app. When symptoms of these bugs, such as user submitted reports and automatically captured crashes, are reported,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Vijayaraghavan Murali , Edward Yao , Umang Mathur , Satish Chandra

With the continued migration of storage to cloud database systems,the impact of slow queries in such systems on services and user experience is increasing. Root-cause diagnosis plays an indispensable role in facilitating slow-query…