# Atlassian Automates Root Cause Analysis by Correlating Metrics, Logs and Traces

DevFeed: [Atlassian Automates Root Cause Analysis by Correlating Metrics, Logs and Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/atlassian-automates-root-cause-analysis-by-correlating-metrics-logs-and-traces-26599.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/atlassian-automated-rca/>)

Author: Craig Risi

Published: 2026-09-15T12:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [InfoQ](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/infoq.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [atlassian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/atlassian.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [SIEM, Security, Observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/siem-security-observability.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [Cloud Native Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>)

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## AI overview

Atlassian has outlined an approach to automating root cause analysis for large-scale cloud-native incidents. It correlates metrics, logs, distributed traces, and service topology to detect anomalies, align them in time, trace dependencies, and produce ranked hypotheses about likely fault origins and propagation paths.

## Source excerpt

Atlassian has outlined a new approach to automating root cause analysis for large-scale cloud-native incidents, using correlation across metrics, logs, distributed traces, and service topology to generate ranked hypotheses about where failures originate and how they propagate. By Craig Risi