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The advent of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has imposed more stringent requirements on industrial software in terms of communication delay, scalability, and maintainability. Microservice architecture (MSA), a novel software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Teng Zhong , Yinglei Teng , Shijun Ma , Jiaxuan Chen , Sicong Yu

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…

This study addresses the problem of anomaly detection and root cause tracing in microservice architectures and proposes a unified framework that combines graph neural networks with temporal modeling. The microservice call chain is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Qingyuan Zhang , Ning Lyu , Le Liu , Yuxi Wang , Ziyu Cheng , Cancan Hua

As the modern microservice architecture for cloud applications grows in popularity, cloud services are becoming increasingly complex and more vulnerable to misconfiguration and software bugs. Traditional approaches rely on expert input to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Rohan Kumar , Jason Li , Zongshun Zhang , Syed Mohammad Qasim , Gianluca Stringhini , Ayse K. Coskun

As a ubiquitous deployment paradigm, integrating microservice architecture (MSA) into edge networks promises to enhance the flexibility and scalability of services. However, it also presents significant challenges stemming from dispersed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yuang Chen , Chang Wu , Fangyu Zhang , Chengdi Lu , Yongsheng Huang , Hancheng Lu

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

Modern cloud services are prone to failures due to their complex architecture, making diagnosis a critical process. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) spend hours leveraging multiple sources of data, including the alerts, error logs, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Sarthak Chakraborty , Shubham Agarwal , Shaddy Garg , Abhimanyu Sethia , Udit Narayan Pandey , Videh Aggarwal , Shiv Saini

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

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

In recent years, microservices have gained widespread adoption in IT operations due to their scalability, maintenance, and flexibility. However, it becomes challenging for site reliability engineers (SREs) to pinpoint the root cause due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Cheng-Ming Lin , Ching Chang , Wei-Yao Wang , Kuang-Da Wang , Wen-Chih Peng

Network failure diagnosis is challenging yet critical for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Existing methods cannot be directly applied to HPC scenarios due to data heterogeneity and lack of accuracy. This paper proposes a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yongqian Sun , Xijie Pan , Xiao Xiong , Lei Tao , Jiaju Wang , Shenglin Zhang , Yuan Yuan , Yuqi Li , Kunlin Jian

In large-scale online services, crucial metrics, a.k.a., key performance indicators (KPIs), are monitored periodically to check their running statuses. Generally, KPIs are aggregated along multiple dimensions and derived by complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Shifu Yan , Caihua Shan , Wenyi Yang , Bixiong Xu , Dongsheng Li , Lili Qiu , Jie Tong , Qi Zhang

Previous work shows request tracing systems help understand and debug the performance problems of multi-tier services. However, for large-scale data centers, more than hundreds of thousands of service instances provide online service at the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-05 Bo Sang , Jianfeng Zhan , Guanhua Tian

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

Alarm root cause analysis is a significant component in the day-to-day telecommunication network maintenance, and it is critical for efficient and accurate fault localization and failure recovery. In practice, accurate and self-adjustable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Keli Zhang , Marcus Kalander , Min Zhou , Xi Zhang , Junjian Ye

Diagnosing the root cause of an anomaly in a complex interconnected system is a pressing problem in today's cloud services and industrial operations. We propose In-Distribution Interventions (IDI), a novel algorithm that predicts root cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Lokesh Nagalapatti , Ashutosh Srivastava , Sunita Sarawagi , Amit Sharma

This paper presents a systematic theoretical performance analysis of the Real-Valued root-MUSIC (RV-root-MUSIC) algorithm under non-asymptotic conditions. A well-known limitation of RV-root-MUSIC is the estimation ambiguity caused by mirror…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Junyang Liu , Weicheng Zhao , Qingping Wang , Xiangtian Meng , Maria Greco , Fulvio Gini

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

Root cause analysis (RCA) is essential for diagnosing failures within complex software systems to ensure system reliability. The highly distributed and interdependent nature of modern cloud-based systems often complicates RCA efforts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Evelien Riddell , James Riddell , Gengyi Sun , Michał Antkiewicz , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Mammalian tissue architecture is central to biological function, and its disruption is a hallmark of disease. Medical imaging techniques can generate large point cloud datasets that capture changes in the cellular composition of such…