Citrix Systems, Inc.
Event Root Cause Identification For Computing Environments

Abstract:

Systems and apparatuses for identifying root causes of events within an computing environment described herein. A causality network may be generated based on detected events in the computing environment. The causality network may be nodes for the events and directed edges showing the casual relations between the nodes. Conditional probability tables (CPTs) for the nodes may show the strength of the causal relations. When an event occurs, computing device may identify the node for the event in the causal network and traverse the causal network until a root cause node is identified. The computing device may output the root cause node and the path of traversal.