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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…

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Root cause localization in cloud native microservice systems requires modeling complex service dependencies, irregular temporal dynamics, and heterogeneous observability data. We present HyperODE RCA, a unified framework that combines…

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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…

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