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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

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

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

Modern applications are built as large, distributed systems spanning numerous modules, teams, and data centers. Despite robust engineering and recovery strategies, failures and performance issues remain inevitable, risking significant…

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 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

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

Root cause analysis (RCA) in complex systems is challenging due to error propagation across multiple variables, the need for structural causal knowledge, and the computational cost of inference at test time. We introduce PRIM (Prior-fitted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Christopher Lohse , Anish Dhir , Amadou Ba , Bradley Eck , Marco Ruffini , Jonas Wahl

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

Root cause analysis in modern cloud infrastructure demands sophisticated understanding of heterogeneous data sources, particularly time-series performance metrics that involve core failure signatures. While large language models demonstrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Gijun Park

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

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,…

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

Finding the root causes of anomalies in cloud computing systems quickly is crucial to ensure availability and efficiency since accurate root causes can guide engineers to take appropriate actions to address the anomalies and maintain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Shuhan Liu , Yunfan Zhou , Lu Ying , Yuan Tian , Jue Zhang , Shandan Zhou , Weiwei Cui , Qingwei Lin , Thomas Moscibroda , Haidong Zhang , Di Weng , Yingcai Wu

Implementing large language models (LLMs)-driven root cause analysis (RCA) in cloud-native systems has become a key topic of modern software operations and maintenance. However, existing LLM-based approaches face three key challenges:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiao Zhang , Qi Wang , Mingyi Li , Yuan Yuan , Mengbai Xiao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Dongxiao Yu

Root cause analysis (RCA) for microservice systems has gained significant attention in recent years. However, there is still no standard benchmark that includes large-scale datasets and supports comprehensive evaluation environments. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Luan Pham , Hongyu Zhang , Huong Ha , Flora Salim , Xiuzhen Zhang

Failures in complex systems demand rapid Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent cascading damage. Existing RCA methods that operate without dependency graph typically assume that the root cause having the highest anomaly score. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Luan Pham

Edge computing environments host increasingly complex microservice-based IoT applications that are prone to performance anomalies propagating across dependent services. Identifying the faulty component (root cause localization) and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Duneesha Fernando , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

The convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) in Industry 4.0 exposes the limitations of traditional, hierarchical architectures like ISA-95 and RAMI 4.0. Their inherent rigidity, data silos, and lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hai Dinh-Tuan

Diagnosing problems in Internet-scale services remains particularly difficult and costly for both content providers and ISPs. Because the Internet is decentralized, the cause of such problems might lie anywhere between an end-user's device…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Loïck Bonniot , Christoph Neumann , François Taïani