Identifying root causes in production microservice failures requires reasoning over large-scale, multimodal telemetry spanning metrics, logs, and traces, a problem that has proved resistant to both classical and LLM-based approaches. The OpenRCA dataset exemplifies these challenges: it is large-scale, multimodal, and lacks detailed domain knowledge, and yields consistently low accuracy across all existing methods.
arXiv:2607. 13548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying root causes in production microservice failures requires reasoning over large-scale, multimodal telemetry spanning metrics, logs, and traces, a problem that has proved resistant to both classical and LLM-based approaches.
By Athira Gopal, Ashwanth Krishnan
arXiv:2606. 09942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Microservice systems are widely used to build cloud applications, yet their complexity makes failures inevitable, degrading user experience and causing economic loss.
By Luan Pham
arXiv:2606. 29193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are reshaping microservice operations into AgentOps, where benchmarks are key to evaluating failure diagnosis over multimodal observability data.
By Yuanhong Cai, Xiaohui Nie, Kanglin Yin, Changhua Pei, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Haibin Liu, Guiyang Liu, Xidao Wen, Fang Situ, Dan Pei
The paper introduces Continual Search, an iterative framework that guides large language models to persistently search for diagnostic evidence in long AI agent execution logs, addressing the limitations of one-shot judgments. Evaluated on four existing RCA benchmarks and a new large-scale dataset called MegaRCA-Mix, Continual Search consistently boosts attribution performance, achieving a 40% F1 improvement for GPT‑5.5 on MegaRCA‑Mix. The results show that effective search can outweigh raw model scale, enabling lower-tier models to outperform higher-tier ones in root‑cause attribution tasks.
By Harsh Raj, David Lee, Anas Mahmoud, Renxiong Wang, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Chenguang Wang, Tong Zhao, Yunzhong He, Darvin Yi, Vipul Gupta
arXiv:2606. 08590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kubernetes incidents are diagnosed reliably only when a root-cause system's reported gains come from incident evidence rather than scenario-specific shortcuts.
By Anastasiia Kuvshinova, Seungmin Jin