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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…

Operation and maintenance of large distributed cloud applications can quickly become unmanageably complex, putting human operators under immense stress when problems occur. Utilizing machine learning for identification and localization of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Dominik Scheinert , Alexander Acker , Lauritz Thamsen , Morgan K. Geldenhuys , Odej Kao

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

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

Online anomaly detection from a data stream is critical for the safety and security of many applications but is facing severe challenges due to complex and evolving data streams from IoT devices and cloud-based infrastructures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Susik Yoon , Youngjun Lee , Jae-Gil Lee , Byung Suk Lee

This paper proposes a framework for time series generation built to investigate anomaly detection in cloud microservices. In the field of cloud computing, ensuring the reliability of microservices is of paramount concern and yet a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Mohamed Allam , Noureddine Boujnah , Noel E. O'Connor , Mingming Liu

When faults occur in microservice applications -- as they inevitably do -- developers depend on observability data to quickly identify and diagnose the issue. To collect such data, microservices need to be instrumented and the respective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Maria C. Borges , Sebastian Werner

Microservice applications are created as loosely coupled application components and they leverage cloud elasticity to reduce costs and increase development speed. However, microservice applications exhibit complex interactions among…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minxian Xu , Junhan Liao , Linfeng Wen , Huaming Wu , Kejiang Ye , Rajkumar Buyya , Chengzhong Xu

Large-scale monitoring, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis of metrics are essential requirements of the internet-services industry. To address the need to continuously monitor millions of metrics, many anomaly detection approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Nikhil Galagali

The increased usage of Internet of Things devices at the network edge and the proliferation of microservice-based applications create new orchestration challenges in Edge computing. These include detecting overutilized resources and scaling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Narges Mehran , Nikolay Nikolov , Radu Prodan , Dumitru Roman , Dragi Kimovski , Frank Pallas , Peter Dorfinger

Service reliability is one of the key challenges that cloud providers have to deal with. In cloud systems, unplanned service failures may cause severe cascading impacts on their dependent services, deteriorating customer satisfaction.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tianyi Yang , Jiacheng Shen , Yuxin Su , Xiao Ling , Yongqiang Yang , Michael R. Lyu

Fault diagnosis has attracted extensive attention for its importance in the exceedingly fault management framework for cloud virtualization, despite the fact that fault diagnosis becomes more difficult due to the increasing scalability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Ameen Alkasem , Hongwei Liu , Zuo Decheng , Yao Zhao

Cloud performance diagnosis and prediction is a challenging problem due to the stochastic nature of the cloud systems. Cloud performance is affected by a large set of factors including (but not limited to) virtual machine types, regions,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Karan Mitra , Saguna Saguna , Christer Åhlund , Rajiv Ranjan

The complexity and dynamism of microservices pose significant challenges to system reliability, and thereby, automated troubleshooting is crucial. Effective root cause localization after anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Cheryl Lee , Tianyi Yang , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Workloads in modern cloud data centers are becoming increasingly complex. The number of workloads running in cloud data centers has been growing exponentially for the last few years, and cloud service providers (CSP) have been supporting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mohammad Hossain , Derssie Mebratu , Niranjan Hasabnis , Jun Jin , Gaurav Chaudhary , Noah Shen

In order to plan for failure recovery, the designers of cloud systems need to understand how their system can potentially fail. Unfortunately, analyzing the failure behavior of such systems can be very difficult and time-consuming, due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella , Nematollah Bidokhti

Microservice systems (MSS) have become a predominant architectural style for cloud services. Yet the community still lacks high-quality, publicly available datasets for anomaly detection (AD) and root cause analysis (RCA) in MSS. Most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ke Ping , Hamza Bin Mazhar , Yuqing Wang , Ying Song , Mika V. Mäntylä

Anomalies represent deviations from the intended system operation and can lead to decreased efficiency as well as partial or complete system failure. As the causes of anomalies are often unknown due to complex system dynamics, efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Benjamin Lindemann , Benjamin Maschler , Nada Sahlab , Michael Weyrich

Observability is important to ensure the reliability of microservice applications. These applications are often prone to failures, since they have many independent services deployed on heterogeneous environments. When employed "correctly",…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Maria C. Borges , Joshua Bauer , Sebastian Werner , Michael Gebauer , Stefan Tai

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