awesome-AIOps

A curated list of awesome academic researches and industrial materials about Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps).

• Researchers
• Industrial Materials
  • Competitions
  • White Papers
  • Blogs & Tutorials & Magazines
  • Benchmarks
  • Tools
  • Companies
• Academic Materials
  • Talks
  • Workshops
• Papers
  • Survey & Empirical Study
  • Benchmarks
  • (Large) Language Models for IT Operations
  • Knowledge Graph for AIOps
  • Microservices and Serverless
  • Dependency and Tracing
  • Anomaly/Failure Detection
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Incident and Alarm Management
  • Node, Disk, and Storage
  • VM Analysis and Management
  • Deployment
• Datasets
• Others
  • Courses

Researchers

China (& HK SAR)
Michael R. Lyu, CUHK	Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft	Pengfei Chen, SYSU	Dan Pei, Tsinghua
Xin Peng, Fudan
USA
Ryan Huang, JHU	Yingnong Dang, Microsoft	Christina Delimitrou, MIT EECS
Europe
Odej Kao, TU Berlin
Australia
Hongyu Zhang, UON

Industrial Materials

Competitions

• [AIOps Challenge] A series of AIOps competitions hosted by Tsinghua University
• [PAKDD2020] Alibaba AIOps Competition

White Papers

• [VMware] Proactive Incident and Problem Management
• [GREATOPS 高效运维社区] 《企业级 AIOps 实施建议》白皮书
• [Awesome Open Source] Aiops Handbook

Blogs & Tutorials & Magazines

• [Moogsoft] What is AIOps?
• [Tsinghua University] 清华裴丹：AIOps落地的15条原则
• [Tsinghua University] 清华裴丹：AIOps效果落地最后一公里
• [Alibaba Cloud] 基于大数据的智能网络分析-齐天
• [Microsoft] Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps
• [Grafana] GrafanaCON: Grafana Observability Conference 2022
• [InfoQ] 2023，可观测性需求将迎来“爆发之年”？
• [Alibaba] 阿里云张建锋谈新型计算体系：云正在重构硬件、软件和终端世界

Benchmarks

• [Cornell] DeathStarBench (An open-source benchmark suite for cloud microservices)
• [Google Cloud] Online Boutique (A microservices demo application)
• [Fudan] Train Ticket (A benchmark microservice system)
• [Weaveworks] Sock Shop (A microservices demo application)

Tools

• [Log Analytics] LogPAI
• [AI for Cloud Operation] OpsPAI
• [Outlier Detection] PyOD
• [Anomaly Detection] ADTK
• [Anomaly Detection] PySAD
• [Online Machine Learning] River
• [Online Machine Learning] scikit-multiflow
• [Fault Injection] Chaos Mesh
• [Fault Injection] ChaosBlade
• [Container Monitoring] cAdvisor
• [Performance Monitoring] Netdata
• [Anomaly Detection Labeling Tool] Microsoft TagAnomaly
• [Serverless App Dev. Framework] AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
• [Performance Testing Tool] Locust
• [Alibaba Java Diagnostic Tool] Arthas

Companies

• Datadog: A monitoring and security platform for cloud applications
• 必示 bizseer
• 日志易
• 博睿数据
• 听云 TINGYUN: 端到端的全平台应用性能管理系统
• Loom Systems

Academic Materials

Talks

• [Michael R. Lyu] Reliability-Driven AIOps for Cloud Resilience (Keynote talk at ICSE '21)

Workshops

• ICSE21 Workshop on Cloud Intelligence
• AAAI-20 Workshop on Cloud Intelligence
• AIOPS 2020 (International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations)

Papers

Survey & Empirical Study

• [arXiv '24] A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems
• [arXiv '23] AI for IT Operations (AIOps) on Cloud Platforms: Reviews, Opportunities and Challenges
• [CSUR '22] Anomaly Detection and Failure Root Cause Analysis in (Micro) Service-Based Cloud Applications: A Survey
• [ASE '22] Going through the Life Cycle of Faults in Clouds: Guidelines on Fault Handling
• [arXiv '21] Experience Report: Deep Learning-based System Log Analysis for Anomaly Detection
• [CSUR '21] A Survey on Automated Log Analysis for Reliability Engineering
• [ESEC/FSE '20] Towards intelligent incident management: why we need it and how we make it
• [arXiv '20] A Systematic Mapping Study in AIOps
• [ICSE '19] AIOps: Real-World Challenges and Research Innovations
• [HotOS '19] What bugs cause production cloud incidents?
• [ISSRE '16] Experience Report: System Log Analysis for Anomaly Detection
• [ASE '13] Software analytics for incident management of online services: An experience report

Benchmarks

• [arXiv '22] Constructing Large-Scale Real-World Benchmark Datasets for AIOps
• [ASPLOS '19] An Open-Source Benchmark Suite for Microservices and Their Hardware-Software Implications for Cloud and Edge Systems

(Large) Language Models for IT Operations

• [ISSTA '24] LILAC: Log Parsing using LLMs with Adaptive Parsing Cache
• [arXiv '24] Exploring LLM-based Agents for Root Cause Analysis
• [arXiv '24] Nissist: An Incident Mitigation Copilot based on Troubleshooting Guides
• [arXiv '24] Automated Root Causing of Cloud Incidents using In-Context Learning with GPT-4
• [arXiv '23] Automatic Root Cause Analysis via Large Language Models for Cloud Incidents
• [arXiv '23] OpsEval: A Comprehensive Task-Oriented AIOps Benchmark for Large Language Models
• [arXiv '23] Xpert: Empowering Incident Management with Query Recommendations via Large Language Models
• [arXiv '23] Exploring the Effectiveness of LLMs in Automated Logging Generation: An Empirical Study
• [arXiv '23] Assess and Summarize: Improve Outage Understanding with Large Language Models
• [arXiv '23] Empower Large Language Model to Perform Better on Industrial Domain-Specific Question Answering
• [arXiv '23] Recommending Root-Cause and Mitigation Steps for Cloud Incidents using Large Language Models
• [SoCC '19] A System-Wide Debugging Assistant Powered by Natural Language Processing

Knowledge Graph for AIOps

• [ICSE-SEIP '22] Mining Root Cause Knowledge from Cloud Service Incident Investigations for AIOps
• [ICSE-SEIP '21] Neural knowledge extraction from cloud service incidents
• [arXiv '21] SoftNER: Mining Knowledge Graphs From Cloud Incidents
• [APPLSCI '20] A Causality Mining and Knowledge Graph Based Method of Root Cause Diagnosis for Performance Anomaly in Cloud Applications

Microservices and Serverless

• [ASPLOS '21] Sage: Practical & Scalable ML-Driven Performance Debugging in Microservices
• [ICDCS '21] Defuse: A Dependency-Guided Function Scheduler to Mitigate Cold Starts on FaaS Platforms
• [FSE '20] Graph-based trace analysis for microservice architecture understanding and problem diagnosis
• [OSDI '20] FIRM: An Intelligent Fine-grained Resource Management Framework for SLO-Oriented Microservices
• [ESEC/FSE '19] Latent Error Prediction and Fault Localization for Microservice Applications by Learning from System Trace Logs
• [TSE '18] Fault Analysis and Debugging of Microservice Systems: Industrial Survey, Benchmark System, and Empirical Study

Dependency and Tracing

• [ASE '21] AID: Efficient Prediction of Aggregated Intensity of Dependency in Large-scale Cloud Systems [code]
• [NSDI '07] X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework
• [HotNets '06] Discovering Dependencies for Network Management

Anomaly/Failure Detection

• [ICSE '23] CONAN: Diagnosing Batch Failures for Cloud Systems
• [ISSRE '22] Share or Not Share? Towards the Practicability of Deep Models for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Modern Online Systems [code]
• [ICSE '22] Adaptive Performance Anomaly Detection for Online Service Systems via Pattern Sketching [code]
• [KDD '19] Time-Series Anomaly Detection Service at Microsoft
• [ESEC/FSE '18] Identifying Impactful Service System Problems via Log Analysis
• [CCS '17] DeepLog: Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis from System Logs through Deep Learning

Root Cause Analysis

• [SIGCOMM '23] Murphy: Performance Diagnosis of Distributed Cloud Applications
• [FSE '23] Nezha: Interpretable Fine-Grained Root Causes Analysis for Microservices on Multi-modal Observability Data
• [OSDI '18] Capturing and Enhancing In Situ System Observability for Failure Detection

Incident and Alarm Management

• [ATC '23] AutoARTS: Taxonomy, Insights and Tools for Root Cause Labelling of Incidents in Microsoft Azure
• [ICSE '23] Incident-aware Duplicate Ticket Aggregation for Cloud Systems
• [SoCC '22] How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-scale Cloud Service
• [DSN '22] Characterizing and Mitigating Anti-patterns of Alerts in Industrial Cloud Systems
• [USENIX ATC '21] Fighting the Fog of War: Automated Incident Detection for Cloud Systems
• [ASE '21] Graph-based Incident Aggregation for Large-Scale Online Service Systems
• [ASE '21] Groot: An Event-graph-based Approach for Root Cause Analysis in Industrial Settings
• [SIGCOMM '20] Scouts: Improving the Diagnosis Process Through Domain-customized Incident Routing
• [ASE '20] How Incidental are the Incidents?: Characterizing and Prioritizing Incidents for Large-Scale Online Service Systems
• [ESEC/FSE '20] Identifying linked incidents in large-scale online service systems
• [ESEC/FSE '20] Efficient incident identification from multi-dimensional issue reports via meta-heuristic search
• [ESEC/FSE '20] Real-time incident prediction for online service systems
• [ESEC/FSE '20] How to mitigate the incident? an effective troubleshooting guide recommendation technique for online service systems
• [ICSE '20] Understanding and Handling Alert Storm for Online Service Systems
• [HotOS '19] What bugs cause production cloud incidents?
• [ASE '19] Continuous Incident Triage for Large-Scale Online Service Systems
• [ICSE '19] An empirical investigation of incident triage for online service systems
• [WWW '19] Outage Prediction and Diagnosis for Cloud Service Systems
• [KDD '14] Correlating Events with Time Series for Incident Diagnosis

Node, Disk, and Storage

• [FAST '23] Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems [data]
• [DSN '21] General Feature Selection for Failure Prediction in Large-scale SSD Deployment
• [TOSEM '20] Predicting Node Failures in an Ultra-Large-Scale Cloud Computing Platform: An AIOps Solution
• [ICDCS '20] Toward Adaptive Disk Failure Prediction via Stream Mining
• [VLDB '20] Diagnosing root causes of intermittent slow queries in cloud databases
• [USENIX ATC '19] IASO: A Fail-Slow Detection and Mitigation Framework for Distributed Storage Services
• [NSDI '18] Deepview: Virtual Disk Failure Diagnosis and Pattern Detection for Azure
• [ESEC/FSE '18] Predicting Node Failure in Cloud Service Systems
• [USENIX ATC '18] Improving Service Availability of Cloud Systems by Predicting Disk Error

VM Analysis and Management

• [NSDI '22] CloudCluster: Unearthing the Functional Structure of a Cloud Service
• [OSDI '20] Predictive and Adaptive Failure Mitigation to Avert Production Cloud VM Interruptions

Deployment

• [SOSP '21] Understanding and Detecting Software Upgrade Failures in Distributed Systems
• [NSDI '20] Gandalf: An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure

Datasets

• [CUHK] Loghub
• [Microsoft Azure] Azure Public Dataset
• [Tsinghua] AIOps Challenge Dataset
• [Google] Cluster Traces
• [Backblaze] Hard Drive Dataset
• [Baidu] SMART Dataset of PAKDD CUP 2020
• [Alibaba] SSD SMART logs and failure data
• [Alibaba] Alibaba Cluster Trace Program
• [CloudWise] GAIA Dataset
• [Huawei Cloud] Serverless traces

Others

Courses

• [Coursera] Cloud-Based Network Design & Management Techniques
• [Tsinghua] AIOps Course of Tsinghua