Systems and methods for determining causal relationships among network alarms

Abstract

In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, at an alarm management service, a plurality of alarms, wherein each of the plurality of alarms includes respective alarm data; clustering the plurality of alarms into an alarm cluster group; generating a plurality of binary time sequences, wherein each of the plurality of binary time sequences corresponds to one of the plurality of alarms; generating an initial alarm graph based on the alarm cluster group and the plurality of binary time sequences; providing, as input to a causal inference process, the initial alarm graph and the plurality of binary time sequences; and generating, by the causal inference process, a causal alarm graph, wherein the causal alarm graph is a partially connected and directed graph.