Title
MS-Rank: Multi-Metric and Self-Adaptive Root Cause Diagnosis for Microservice Applications
Abstract
This paper presents a self-adaptive root cause diagnosis framework, named MS-Rank, to analyze multiple metrics collected from micro-service architecture. MS-Rank decomposes the task into four phases: impact graph construction, random walk diagnosis, result precision calculation and metrics weight update. First, we introduce a series of basic and implied metrics into MS-Rank, and design an impact graph construction algorithm to discover causal relationship between services during anomalies. Second, we propose a random walk algorithm with forward, selfward and backward transitions to heuristically identify the root cause service. Third, we establish a self-optimizing mechanism to dynamically update the confidence weight of different metrics according to their diagnosis precision. We develop a prototype system and integrate MS-Rank into IBM Cloud, to validate and compare it with selected benchmarks. Experimental results show that MS-Rank offers fast identification and precise diagnosis result. In multiple rounds of diagnosis, MS-Rank optimizes itself effectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICWS.2019.00022
2019 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
microservice architecture,root cause,anomaly diagnosis,impact graph,cloud computing
Graph,Data mining,Architecture,Heuristic,IBM,Random walk,Computer science,Self adaptive,Root cause,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-2718-7
1
0.35
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meng Ma18212.29
Weilan Lin242.11
Disheng Pan331.74
Ping Wang414914.37