Tag: Trace-Based Fault Localization

Sep 21
Trace-Based Fault Localization: Automatically Identifying the Exact Node Responsible for Multi-Step Failures

In traditional software debugging and distributed tracing architectures, fault localization relies on deterministic stack traces, error codes, and exception boundaries. When a microservice application crashes or returns a 500 Internal Server Error, APM tools (such as Datadog, Jaeger, or OpenTelemetry) trace the request hop-by-hop, isolating the specific function call, database query, or network timeout that […]