Architecture

Troubleshooting

Microservices

NoSQL

Computer network

Latency (audio)

Operating system

Distributed computing

Visual arts

Tracing

Computer science

Low latency (capital markets)

Cloud computing

Scalability

End-to-end principle

Telecommunications

End user

With the advantages of flexible scalability and fast delivery, microservice has become a popular software architecture in the modern IT industry. However, the explosion in the number of service instances and complex dependencies make the troubleshooting extremely challenging in microservice environments. To help understand and troubleshoot a microservice system, the end-to-end tracing technology has been widely applied to capture the execution path of each request. Nevertheless, the tracing data are not fully leveraged by cloud and application providers when conducting latency issue localization in the microservice environment.

MicroRank: End-to-End Latency Issue Localization with Extended Spectrum Analysis in Microservice Environments