Abstract
In large-scale online service systems, incidents occur frequently due to a variety of causes, from updates of software and hardware to changes in operation environment. These incidents could significantly degrade system's availability and customers' satisfaction. Some incidents are linked because they are duplicate or inter-related. The linked incidents can greatly help on-call engineers find mitigation solutions and identify the root causes. In this work, we investigate the incidents and their links in a representative real-world incident management (IcM) system. Based on the identified indicators of linked incidents, we further propose LiDAR (Linked Incident identification with DAta-driven Representation), a deep learning based approach to incident linking. More specifically, we incorporate the textual description of incidents and structural information extracted from historical linked incidents to identify possible links among a large number of incidents. To show the effectiveness of our method, we apply our method to a real-world IcM system and find that our method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering |
Editors | Prem Devanbu, Myra Cohen, Thomas Zimmermann |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 304-314 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450370431 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 8 Nov 2020 |
Event | 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 8 Nov 2020 → 13 Nov 2020 https://2020.esec-fse.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3368089 |
Publication series
Name | ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering |
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Conference
Conference | 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2020 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 8/11/20 → 13/11/20 |
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Scopus Subject Areas
- Software
User-Defined Keywords
- Incident management
- Link prediction
- Linked incidents
- Online service system