ActionNex: A Virtual Outage Manager for Cloud Computing.

Murali Chintalapati

Zhenfeng Lin Haoji Hu Ming Hao Xuchao Zhang Ryan Zhang Junhao Li Ze Li Oleg Kulygin Chetan Bansal Hatay Tuna Murali Chintalapati Sheila Jiang Salman Zafar Angie Anderson ActionNex: A Virtual Outage Manager for Cloud Computing. 2026 April abs/2604.03512 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.03512 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-03512 streams/journals/corr

Ze Li 0005 Chang Lou Vignatha Yenugutala Vivek Ramamurthy Eion Blanchard Minghua Ma Murali Chintalapati Orchestrating Cross-Layer Anomaly Detection and Mitigation to Address Gray Failures in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure. 10-12 2025 AIOps https://doi.org/10.1109/AIOps66738.2025.00008 conf/icse/2025aiops db/conf/icse/aiops2025.html#LiLYRBMC25 streams/conf/icse Zhaoyang Yu 0002 Aoyang Fang Minghua Ma Jaskaran Singh Walia Chaoyun Zhang Shu Chi Ze Li 0005 Murali Chintalapati Xuchao Zhang Rujia Wang Chetan Bansal Saravan Rajmohan Qingwei Lin Shenglin Zhang Dan Pei Pinjia He Triangle: Empowering Incident Triage with Multi-Agent. 674-686 2025 ASE https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE63991.2025.00062 conf/kbse/2025 db/conf/kbse/ase2025.html#YuFMWZCLCZWBRLZPH25 streams/conf/kbse Chaoyun Zhang Randolph Yao Si Qin Ze Li 0005 Shekhar Agrawal Binit R. Mishra Tri Tran Minghua Ma Qingwei Lin Murali Chintalapati Dongmei Zhang 0001 Deoxys: A Causal Inference Engine for Unhealthy Node Mitigation in Large-scale Cloud Infrastructure. 361-379 2024 SoCC https://doi.org/10.1145/3698038.3698534 conf/cloud/2024 db/conf/cloud/socc2024.html#ZhangYQLAMTMLC024 Yudong Liu Minghua Ma Pu Zhao 0004 Tianci Li Bo Qiao 0001 Shuo Li 0013 Ze Li 0005 Murali Chintalapati Yingnong Dang Chetan Bansal Saravan Rajmohan Qingwei Lin Dongmei Zhang 0001 Early Bird: Ensuring Reliability of Cloud Systems Through Early Failure Prediction. 49-54 2024 ISSRE (Workshops) https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSREW63542.2024.00046 conf/issre/2024w db/conf/issre/issre2024w.html#LiuM0L0LLCDBRL024 Haozhe Li Minghua Ma Yudong Liu Pu Zhao 0004 Shuo Li 0013 Ze Li 0005 Murali Chintalapati Yingnong Dang Chetan Bansal Saravan Rajmohan Qingwei Lin Dongmei Zhang 0001 Can We Trust Auto-Mitigation? Improving Cloud Failure Prediction with Uncertain Positive Learning. 499-510 2024 ISSRE https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00054 conf/issre/2024 db/conf/issre/issre2024.html#LiML0LLCDBRL024 Zexin Wang Jianhui Li Minghua Ma Ze Li 0005 Yu Kang 0006 Chaoyun Zhang Chetan Bansal Murali Chintalapati Saravan Rajmohan Qingwei Lin Dongmei Zhang 0001 Changhua Pei Gaogang Xie Large Language Models Can Provide Accurate and Interpretable Incident Triage. 523-534 2024 ISSRE https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00056 conf/issre/2024 db/conf/issre/issre2024.html#WangLML0ZBCRL0P24

Haozhe Li Minghua Ma Yudong Liu Pu Zhao 0004 Lingling Zheng Ze Li 0005 Yingnong Dang Murali Chintalapati Saravan Rajmohan Qingwei Lin Dongmei Zhang 0001 Why does Prediction Accuracy Decrease over Time? Uncertain Positive Learning for Cloud Failure Prediction. 2024 abs/2402.00034 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.00034 db/journals/corr/corr2402.html#abs-2402-00034

Chaoyun Zhang Randolph Yao Si Qin Ze Li 0005 Shekhar Agrawal Binit R. Mishra Tri Tran Minghua Ma Qingwei Lin Murali Chintalapati Dongmei Zhang 0001 Deoxys: A Causal Inference Engine for Unhealthy Node Mitigation in Large-scale Cloud Infrastructure. 2024 abs/2410.17709 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.17709 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-17709 streams/journals/corr

Xiaohan Yan Ken Hsieh Yasitha Liyanage Minghua Ma Murali Chintalapati Qingwei Lin Yingnong Dang Dongmei Zhang 0001 Aegis: Attribution of Control Plane Change Impact across Layers and Components for Cloud Systems. 222-233 2023 ICSE-SEIP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIP58684.2023.00026 conf/icse/2023seip db/conf/icse/seip2023.html#YanHLMCLDZ23 Haozhe Li Minghua Ma Yudong Liu Si Qin Bo Qiao 0001 Randolph Yao Harshwardhan Chaturvedi Tri Tran Murali Chintalapati Saravan Rajmohan Qingwei Lin Dongmei Zhang 0001 CODEC: Cost-Effective Duration Prediction System for Deadline Scheduling in the Cloud. 298-308 2023 ISSRE https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE59848.2023.00069 conf/issre/2023 db/conf/issre/issre2023.html#LiMLQQYCTCRLZ23 Qingwei Lin Tianci Li Pu Zhao 0004 Yudong Liu Minghua Ma Lingling Zheng Murali Chintalapati Bo Liu 0006 Paul Wang Hongyu Zhang 0002 Yingnong Dang Saravan Rajmohan Dongmei Zhang 0001 EDITS: An Easy-to-difficult Training Strategy for Cloud Failure Prediction. 371-375 2023 WWW (Companion Volume) https://doi.org/10.1145/3543873.3584630 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130936199 conf/www/2023c db/conf/www/www2023c.html#LinL0LMZCLW0DR023 Chang Lou Cong Chen Peng Huang 0005 Yingnong Dang Si Qin Xinsheng Yang Xukun Li Qingwei Lin Murali Chintalapati RESIN: A Holistic Service for Dealing with Memory Leaks in Production Cloud Infrastructure. 109-125 2022 OSDI https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi22/presentation/lou-resin conf/osdi/2022 db/conf/osdi/osdi2022.html#LouC0DQYLLC22 Xu Zhang 0024 Yong Xu 0010 Si Qin Shilin He Bo Qiao 0001 Ze Li 0005 Hongyu Zhang 0002 Xukun Li Yingnong Dang Qingwei Lin Murali Chintalapati Saravanakumar Rajmohan Dongmei Zhang 0001 Onion: identifying incident-indicating logs for cloud systems. 1253-1263 2021 ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE https://doi.org/10.1145/3468264.3473919 conf/sigsoft/2021 db/conf/sigsoft/fse2021.html#ZhangXQHQLZLDLC21 Ze Li 0005 Qian Cheng Ken Hsieh Yingnong Dang Peng Huang 0005 Pankaj Singh Xinsheng Yang Qingwei Lin Youjiang Wu Sebastien Levy Murali Chintalapati Gandalf: An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure. 389-402 2020 NSDI https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/li conf/nsdi/2020 db/conf/nsdi/nsdi2020.html#LiCHDHSYLWLC20 Sebastien Levy Randolph Yao Youjiang Wu Yingnong Dang Peng Huang 0005 Zheng Mu Pu Zhao 0004 Tarun Ramani Naga K. Govindaraju Xukun Li Qingwei Lin Gil Lapid Shafriri Murali Chintalapati Predictive and Adaptive Failure Mitigation to Avert Production Cloud VM Interruptions. 1155-1170 2020 OSDI https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/levy conf/osdi/2020 db/conf/osdi/osdi2020.html#LevyYWDHMZRGLLS20 Jiazhen Gu Chuan Luo 0002 Si Qin Bo Qiao 0001 Qingwei Lin Hongyu Zhang 0002 Ze Li 0005 Yingnong Dang Shaowei Cai 0001 Wei Wu 0011 Yangfan Zhou 0002 Murali Chintalapati Dongmei Zhang 0001 Efficient incident identification from multi-dimensional issue reports via meta-heuristic search. 292-303 2020 ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE https://doi.org/10.1145/3368089.3409741 conf/sigsoft/2020 db/conf/sigsoft/fse2020.html#GuLQQL0LDCWZCZ20

Rohit Pandey Yingnong Dang Gil Lapid Shafriri Murali Chintalapati Aerin Young Kim Breaking hypothesis testing for failure rates. 2020 abs/2001.04045 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04045 db/journals/corr/corr2001.html#abs-2001-04045

Xiangning Chen Bo Qiao 0001 Weiyi Zhang Wei Wu 0011 Murali Chintalapati Dongmei Zhang 0001 Qingwei Lin Chuan Luo 0002 Xudong Li Hongyu Zhang 0002 Yong Xu 0010 Yingnong Dang Kaixin Sui Xu Zhang 0024 Neural Feature Search: A Neural Architecture for Automated Feature Engineering. 71-80 2019 ICDM https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2019.00017 conf/icdm/2019 db/conf/icdm/icdm2019.html#ChenQZWCZLLLZXD19 Xu Zhang 0024 Yong Xu 0010 Qingwei Lin Bo Qiao 0001 Hongyu Zhang 0002 Yingnong Dang Chunyu Xie Xinsheng Yang Qian Cheng Ze Li 0005 Junjie Chen 0003 Xiaoting He 0003 Randolph Yao Jian-Guang Lou Murali Chintalapati Furao Shen Dongmei Zhang 0001 Robust log-based anomaly detection on unstable log data. 807-817 2019 ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338931 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131119953 conf/sigsoft/2019 db/conf/sigsoft/fse2019.html#ZhangXLQZDXYCLC19 Xu Zhang 0024 Qingwei Lin Yong Xu 0010 Si Qin Hongyu Zhang 0002 Bo Qiao 0001 Yingnong Dang Xinsheng Yang Qian Cheng Murali Chintalapati Youjiang Wu Ken Hsieh Kaixin Sui Xin Meng Yaohai Xu Wenchi Zhang Furao Shen Dongmei Zhang 0001 Cross-dataset Time Series Anomaly Detection for Cloud Systems. 1063-1076 2019 USENIX ATC https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/zhang-xu conf/usenix/2019 db/conf/usenix/usenix2019.html#ZhangLXQ0QDYCCW19

Rohit Pandey Yingnong Dang Ali Vira Aerin Young Kim Gil Lapid Shafriri Murali Chintalapati Annual Interruption Rate as a KPI, its measurement and comparison. 2019 abs/1910.12200 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12200 db/journals/corr/corr1910.html#abs-1910-12200

Qiao Zhang 0001 Guo Yu Chuanxiong Guo Yingnong Dang Nick Swanson Xinsheng Yang Randolph Yao Murali Chintalapati Arvind Krishnamurthy Thomas E. Anderson Deepview: Virtual Disk Failure Diagnosis and Pattern Detection for Azure. 519-532 2018 NSDI https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/zhang-qiao conf/nsdi/2018 db/conf/nsdi/nsdi2018.html#ZhangYGDSYYCKA18 Qingwei Lin Ken Hsieh Yingnong Dang Hongyu Zhang 0002 Kaixin Sui Yong Xu 0010 Jian-Guang Lou Chenggang Li Youjiang Wu Randolph Yao Murali Chintalapati Dongmei Zhang 0001 Predicting Node failure in cloud service systems. 480-490 2018 ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE https://doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3236060 conf/sigsoft/2018 db/conf/sigsoft/fse2018.html#LinHDZSXLLWYCZ18 Yong Xu 0010 Kaixin Sui Randolph Yao Hongyu Zhang 0002 Qingwei Lin Yingnong Dang Peng Li 0062 Keceng Jiang Wenchi Zhang Jian-Guang Lou Murali Chintalapati Dongmei Zhang 0001 Improving Service Availability of Cloud Systems by Predicting Disk Error. 481-494 2018 USENIX ATC https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc18/presentation/xu-yong conf/usenix/2018 db/conf/usenix/usenix2018.html#XuSYZLDLJZLCZ18 Peng Huang 0005 Chuanxiong Guo Lidong Zhou Jacob R. Lorch Yingnong Dang Murali Chintalapati Randolph Yao Gray Failure: The Achilles' Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems. 150-155 2017 HotOS https://doi.org/10.1145/3102980.3103005 conf/hotos/2017 db/conf/hotos/hotos2017.html#HuangGZLDCY17 Shekhar Agrawal Angie Anderson Thomas E. Anderson Chetan Bansal Eion Blanchard Shaowei Cai 0001 Harshwardhan Chaturvedi Cong Chen Junjie Chen 0003 Xiangning Chen Qian Cheng Shu Chi Yingnong Dang Aoyang Fang Naga K. Govindaraju Jiazhen Gu Chuanxiong Guo Ming Hao Pinjia He Shilin He Xiaoting He 0003 Ken Hsieh Haoji Hu Peng Huang 0005 Keceng Jiang Sheila Jiang Yu Kang 0006 Aerin Young Kim Arvind Krishnamurthy Oleg Kulygin Sebastien Levy Chenggang Li Haozhe Li Jianhui Li Junhao Li Peng Li 0062 Shuo Li 0013 Tianci Li Xudong Li Xukun Li Ze Li Ze Li 0005 Qingwei Lin Zhenfeng Lin Bo Liu 0006 Yudong Liu Yasitha Liyanage Jacob R. Lorch Chang Lou Jian-Guang Lou Chuan Luo 0002 Minghua Ma Xin Meng Binit R. Mishra Zheng Mu Rohit Pandey Changhua Pei Dan Pei Bo Qiao 0001 Si Qin Saravan Rajmohan Saravanakumar Rajmohan Vivek Ramamurthy Tarun Ramani Gil Lapid Shafriri Furao Shen Pankaj Singh Kaixin Sui Nick Swanson Tri Tran Hatay Tuna Ali Vira Jaskaran Singh Walia Paul Wang Rujia Wang Zexin Wang Wei Wu 0011 Youjiang Wu Chunyu Xie Gaogang Xie Yaohai Xu Yong Xu 0010 Xiaohan Yan Xinsheng Yang Randolph Yao Vignatha Yenugutala Guo Yu Zhaoyang Yu 0002 Salman Zafar Chaoyun Zhang Dongmei Zhang 0001 Hongyu Zhang 0002 Qiao Zhang 0001 Ryan Zhang Shenglin Zhang Weiyi Zhang Wenchi Zhang Xu Zhang 0024 Xuchao Zhang Pu Zhao 0004 Lingling Zheng Lidong Zhou Yangfan Zhou 0002