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Shuaiyu Xie

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arXiv2026

FastFI: Enhancing API Call-Site Robustness in Microservice-Based Systems with Fault Injection

Fault injection is a key technique for assessing software reliability, enabling proactive detection of system defects before they manifest in production. However, the increasing complexity of microservice architectures leads to exponential growth in the fault-injection space, rendering traditional random injection inefficient. Recent lineage-driven approaches mitigate this problem through heuristic pruning, but they face two limitations. First, combinatorial-fault discovery remains bottlenecked by general-purpose SAT solvers, which fail to exploit the monotone and low-overlap structure of derived CNF formulas and typically rely on a static upper bound on fault size. Second, existing techniques provide limited post-injection guidance beyond reporting detected faults. To address these challenges, we propose FastFI, a fault-injection-guided framework to enhance the robustness of API call sites in microservice-based systems. FastFI features a DFS-based solver with dynamic fault injection to discover all valid combinatorial faults, and it leverages fault-injection results to identify critical APIs whose call sites should be hardened for robustness. Experiments on four representative microservice benchmarks show that FastFI reduces end-to-end fault-injection time by an average of 76.12\% compared to state-of-the-art baselines while maintaining acceptable resource overhead. Moreover, FastFI accurately identifies high-impact APIs and provides actionable guidance for call-site hardening.

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arXiv2025

Root Cause Analysis for Microservice Systems via Cascaded Conditional Learning with Hypergraphs

Root cause analysis in microservice systems typically involves two core tasks: root cause localization (RCL) and failure type identification (FTI). Despite substantial research efforts, conventional diagnostic approaches still face two key challenges. First, these methods predominantly adopt a joint learning paradigm for RCL and FTI to exploit shared information and reduce training time. However, this simplistic integration neglects the causal dependencies between tasks, thereby impeding inter-task collaboration and information transfer. Second, these existing methods primarily focus on point-to-point relationships between instances, overlooking the group nature of inter-instance influences induced by deployment configurations and load balancing. To overcome these limitations, we propose CCLH, a novel root cause analysis framework that orchestrates diagnostic tasks based on cascaded conditional learning. CCLH provides a three-level taxonomy for group influences between instances and incorporates a heterogeneous hypergraph to model these relationships, facilitating the simulation of failure propagation. Extensive experiments conducted on datasets from three microservice benchmarks demonstrate that CCLH outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both RCL and FTI.

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arXiv2025

ScalerEval: Automated and Consistent Evaluation Testbed for Auto-scalers in Microservices

Auto-scaling is an automated approach that dynamically provisions resources for microservices to accommodate fluctuating workloads. Despite the introduction of many sophisticated auto-scaling algorithms, evaluating auto-scalers remains time-consuming and labor-intensive, as it requires the implementation of numerous fundamental interfaces, complex manual operations, and in-depth domain knowledge. Besides, frequent human intervention can inevitably introduce operational errors, leading to inconsistencies in the evaluation of different auto-scalers. To address these issues, we present ScalerEval, an end-to-end automated and consistent testbed for auto-scalers in microservices. ScalerEval integrates essential fundamental interfaces for implementation of auto-scalers and further orchestrates a one-click evaluation workflow for researchers. The source code is publicly available at \href{https://github.com/WHU-AISE/ScalerEval}{https://github.com/WHU-AISE/ScalerEval}.

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arXiv2025

TVDiag: A Task-oriented and View-invariant Failure Diagnosis Framework with Multimodal Data

Microservice-based systems often suffer from reliability issues due to their intricate interactions and expanding scale. With the rapid growth of observability techniques, various methods have been proposed to achieve failure diagnosis, including root cause localization and failure type identification, by leveraging diverse monitoring data such as logs, metrics, or traces. However, traditional failure diagnosis methods that use single-modal data can hardly cover all failure scenarios due to the restricted information. Several failure diagnosis methods have been recently proposed to integrate multimodal data based on deep learning. These methods, however, tend to combine modalities indiscriminately and treat them equally in failure diagnosis, ignoring the relationship between specific modalities and different diagnostic tasks. This oversight hinders the effective utilization of the unique advantages offered by each modality. To address the limitation, we propose \textit{TVDiag}, a multimodal failure diagnosis framework for locating culprit microservice instances and identifying their failure types (e.g., Net-packets Corruption) in microservice-based systems. \textit{TVDiag} employs task-oriented learning to enhance the potential advantages of each modality and establishes cross-modal associations based on contrastive learning to extract view-invariant failure information. Furthermore, we develop a graph-level data augmentation strategy that randomly inactivates the observability of some normal microservice instances during training to mitigate the shortage of training data. Experimental results show that \textit{TVDiag} outperforms state-of-the-art methods in multimodal failure diagnosis, achieving at least a 55.94\% higher $HR@1$ accuracy and over a 4.08\% increase in F1-score across two datasets.

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arXiv2023

PBScaler: A Bottleneck-aware Autoscaling Framework for Microservice-based Applications

Autoscaling is critical for ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization in cloud applications with dynamic workloads. However, traditional autoscaling technologies are typically no longer applicable in microservice-based applications due to the diverse workload patterns and complex interactions between microservices. Specifically, the propagation of performance anomalies through interactions leads to a high number of abnormal microservices, making it difficult to identify the root performance bottlenecks (PBs) and formulate appropriate scaling strategies. In addition, to balance resource consumption and performance, the existing mainstream approaches based on online optimization algorithms require multiple iterations, leading to oscillation and elevating the likelihood of performance degradation. To tackle these issues, we propose PBScaler, a bottleneck-aware autoscaling framework designed to prevent performance degradation in a microservice-based application. The key insight of PBScaler is to locate the PBs. Thus, we propose TopoRank, a novel random walk algorithm based on the topological potential to reduce unnecessary scaling. By integrating TopoRank with an offline performance-aware optimization algorithm, PBScaler optimizes replica management without disrupting the online application. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that PBScaler outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches in mitigating performance issues while conserving resources efficiently.

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