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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

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

Serverless becomes popular as a novel computing paradigms for cloud native services. However, the complexity and dynamic nature of serverless applications present significant challenges to ensure system availability and performance. There…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jin Huang , Pengfei Chen , Guangba Yu , Yilun Wang , Haiyu Huang , Zilong He

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

In the realm of microservices architecture, the occurrence of frequent incidents necessitates the employment of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for swift issue resolution. It is common that a serious incident can take several domain experts hours…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Changhua Pei , Zexin Wang , Fengrui Liu , Zeyan Li , Yang Liu , Xiao He , Rong Kang , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Jianhui Li , Gaogang Xie , Dan Pei

Large language models and AI agents have recently shown promise in automating software performance optimization, but existing approaches predominantly rely on local, syntax-driven code transformations. This limits their ability to reason…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Huiyun Peng , Parth Vinod Patil , Antonio Zhong Qiu , George K. Thiruvathukal , James C. Davis

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

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

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 in microservice systems typically involves two core tasks: root cause localization (RCL) and failure type identification (FTI). Despite substantial research efforts, conventional diagnostic approaches still face two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuaiyu Xie , Hanbin He , Jian Wang , Bing Li

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

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

Context. Microservice-based systems have gained significant attention over the past years. A critical factor for understanding and analyzing the behavior of these systems is the collection of monitoring data such as logs, metrics, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Alexander Bakhtin , Jesse Nyyssölä , Yuqing Wang , Noman Ahmad , Ke Ping , Matteo Esposito , Mika Mäntylä , Davide Taibi

Microservice root cause localization is fundamentally challenged by the inherent heterogeneity of cloud-native systems, which encompasses diverse observability data and multiple system entities. Existing approaches typically focus on only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Runzhou Wang , Shenglin Zhang , Wenwei Gu , Yongxin Zhao , Chenyu Zhao , Dan Pei , Yuxuan Chen , Yangyuxin Huang

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…

Availability issues of industrial microservice systems (e.g., drop of successfully placed orders and processed transactions) directly affect the running of the business. These issues are usually caused by various types of service anomalies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dewei Liu , Chuan He , Xin Peng , Fan Lin , Chenxi Zhang , Shengfang Gong , Ziang Li , Jiayu Ou , Zheshun Wu

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

Applications are moving away from monolithic designs to microservice and serverless architectures, where fleets of lightweight and independently deployable components run on public clouds. Autoscaling serves as the primary control mechanism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Haoyu Bai , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Minxian Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

With the development of cloud-native technologies, microservice-based software systems face challenges in accurately localizing root causes when failures occur. Additionally, the cloud-edge collaborative environment introduces more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuhan Zhu , Jian Wang , Bing Li , Xuxian Tang , Hao Li , Neng Zhang , Yuqi Zhao

The goal of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is to explain why an anomaly occurred by identifying where the fault originated. Several recent works model the anomalous event as resulting from a change in the causal mechanism at the root cause,…