AUTOMATING ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS AT SCALE: MULTI-SIGNAL CORRELATION FOR CLOUD NATIVE INCIDENT RESPONSE

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Atlassian has built an automated root cause analysis system designed to cut the time engineers spend diagnosing production incidents across its hundreds of microservices. The system pulls anomaly signals from metrics, distributed traces, and logs, aligns them on a shared timeline, and traverses a service dependency graph built from OpenTelemetry span data to generate ranked hypotheses about fault origin.