Title
Efficient customer incident triage via linking with system incidents
Abstract
In cloud service systems, customers will report the service issues they have encountered to cloud service providers. Despite many issues can be handled by the support team, sometimes the customer issues can not be easily solved, thus raising customer incidents. Quick troubleshooting of a customer incident is critical. To this end, a customer incident should be assigned to its responsible team accurately in a timely manner. Our industrial experiences show that linking customer incidents with detected system incidents can help the customer incident triage. In particular, our empirical study on 7 real cloud service systems shows that with the additional information about the system incidents (i.e., incident reports generated by system monitors), the triage time of customer incidents can be accelerated 13.1× on average. Based on this observation, in this paper, we propose LinkCM, a learning based approach to automatically link customer incidents to monitor reported system incidents. LinkCM incorporates a novel learning-based model that effectively extracts related information from two resources, and a transfer learning strategy is proposed to help LinkCM achieve better performance without huge amount of data. The experimental results indicate that LinkCM is able to achieve accurate link prediction. Furthermore, case studies are presented to demonstrate how LinkCM can help the customer incident triage procedure in real production cloud service systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3368089.3417061
ESEC/FSE '20: 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering Virtual Event USA November, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7043-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiazhen Gu111.09
Jiaqi Wen200.34
Zijian Wang300.34
Pu Zhao487.23
Chuan Luo549641.38
Yu Kang6103.24
Yangfan Zhou723229.72
Li Yang841.43
Jeffrey Sun930.73
Zhangwei Xu10112.59
Bo Qiao11339.09
Liqun Li1230713.67
Qingwei Lin1328527.76
Dongmei Zhang141439132.94