rca-distributed-systems
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Root cause analysis techniques for modern distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. Covers trace-based causality (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Tempo), service dependency graph analysis, DynaCausal-style dynamic causality-aware RCA, anomaly localization with metrics/logs/traces correlation, the Microsoft AgentRx framework for AI agent failures, chaos-engineering-as-RCA, and the 2025 industry shift toward causal-graph-based AIOps. Use when investigating a production incident in a microservice mesh, a Kubernetes cluster, a distributed database, or any system where the fault could originate in any of dozens of services and the causal chain runs through network hops, retries, timeouts, queues, and asynchronous message flows.
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