Integrated system diagnosis and root cause analysis

In this paper, we describe Roots - a system for automatically identifying the "root cause" of performance anomalies in web applications deployed in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) clouds. Roots does not require application-level instrumentation. Instead, ...

With the growth of system size and complexity, reliability has become a major concern for large-scale systems. Upon the occurrence of failure, system administrators typically trace the events in Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) logs ...

Modern information technology (IT) is comprised of a complex mix of infrastructure components provisioning enterprise applications performing tasks in various enterprise business processes. Over the years these components were integrated into overall ...