This study demonstrates the salient facts and challenges of host failure operations in
hyperscale data centers. A host incident can involve hundreds of distinct host-level metrics …

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 …

Cloud microservices are being scaled up due to the rising demand for new features and the
convenience of cloud-native technologies. However, the growing scale of microservices …

Software architecture is undergoing a transition from monolithic architecture to microservices
to achieve resilience, agility, and scalability in the software life cycle. The complex …

Recent work conceptualized root cause analysis (RCA) of anomalies via quantitative
contribution analysis using causal counterfactuals in structural causal models (SCMs). The …

Cloud services are omnipresent and critical cloud service failure is a fact of life. In order to
retain customers and prevent revenue loss, it is important to provide high reliability …

Automated fault localization in large-scale cloud-based applications is challenging because
it involves mining multivariate time series data from large volumes of operational monitoring …

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 …

Microservice architecture has been widely adopted by large-scale applications. Due to the
huge amount of data and complex microservice dependency, it also poses new challenges …

Identifying root causes for unexpected or undesirable behavior in complex systems is a
prevalent challenge. This issue becomes especially crucial in modern cloud applications …