Graph-based root cause analysis for service-oriented and microservice architectures

Álvaro Brandón, Marc Solé, Alberto Huélamo, David Solans, María S. Pérez, Victor Muntés-Mulero

Abstract: Highlights•We explain the challenges related to root cause analysis in microservice architectures.•We design a framework to perform root cause analysis based on graph structures.•We show how our graph based approach is 19.41% more effective than a machine learning based method.•Our evaluation includes real experiments with three microservice architectures ranging from 25 to 56 containers.