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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) 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) 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

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

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

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

Root cause analysis (RCA) in networked industrial systems, such as supply chains and power networks, is notoriously difficult due to unknown and dynamically evolving interdependencies among geographically distributed clients. These clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ayush Mohanty , Paritosh Ramanan , Nagi Gebraeel

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

Microservice architecture has become a popular architecture adopted by many cloud applications. However, identifying the root cause of a failure in microservice systems is still a challenging and time-consuming task. In recent years,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Luan Pham , Huong Ha , Hongyu Zhang

Uncovering the underlying causal mechanisms of complex real-world systems remains a significant challenge, as these systems often entail high data collection costs and involve unknown interventions. We introduce MetaCaDI, the first…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Hans Jarett Ong , Yoichi Chikahara , Tomoharu Iwata

Runtime failure and performance degradation is commonplace in modern cloud systems. For cloud providers, automatically determining the root cause of incidents is paramount to ensuring high reliability and availability as prompt fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhiqiang Xie , Yujia Zheng , Lizi Ottens , Kun Zhang , Christos Kozyrakis , Jonathan Mace

The task of root cause analysis (RCA) is to identify the root causes of system faults/failures by analyzing system monitoring data. Efficient RCA can greatly accelerate system failure recovery and mitigate system damages or financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjie Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Yanjie Fu , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen

This paper presents MicroRCA-Agent, an innovative solution for microservice root cause analysis based on large language model agents, which constructs an intelligent fault root cause localization system with multimodal data fusion. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Pan Tang , Shixiang Tang , Huanqi Pu , Zhiqing Miao , Zhixing Wang

Recent rapid advancements of machine learning have greatly enhanced the accuracy of prediction models, but most models remain "black boxes", making prediction error diagnosis challenging, especially with outliers. This lack of transparency…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 Hiroshi Yokoyama , Ryusei Shingaki , Kaneharu Nishino , Shohei Shimizu , Thong Pham

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

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

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

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

Ensuring the reliability and availability of complex networked services demands effective root cause analysis (RCA) across cloud environments, data centers, and on-premises networks. Traditional RCA methods, which involve manual inspection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Alexander Shan , Jasleen Kaur , Rahul Singh , Tarun Banka , Raj Yavatkar , T. Sridhar

Localizing the root cause of network faults is crucial to network operation and maintenance. However, due to the complicated network architectures and wireless environments, as well as limited labeled data, accurately localizing the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chaoli Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhou , Yingying Zhang , Linxiao Yang , Kai He , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun