Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis for Microservice Systems
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arXiv:2606.09942v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Microservice systems are widely used to build cloud applications, yet their complexity makes failures inevitable, degrading user experience and causing economic loss. Automated anomaly detection and root cause analysis (RCA) are now active research areas, but existing techniques share five limitations. First, most treat anomaly detection and RCA separately, assuming anomalies are detected correctly, and falter when detection is imprecise due to noise or delay. Second, they focus on metrics, logs, and traces, leaving event data such as A
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.09942v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Microservice systems are widely used to build cloud applications, yet their complexity makes failures inevitable, degrading user experience and causing economic loss.
- Automated anomaly detection and root cause analysis (RCA) are now active research areas, but existing techniques share five limitations.
- First, most treat anomaly detection and RCA separately, assuming anomalies are detected correctly, and falter when detection is imprecise due to noise or delay.
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