# Introducing Root Cause Analysis with Open Distro for Elasticsearch | Open Distro **URL:** \ **Category:** General Feedback\ **Created:** [November 1, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/introducing-root-cause-analysis-with-open-distro-for-elasticsearch-open-distro/1805 "2019-11-01T16:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stevliu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@stevliu](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/stevliu)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/introducing-root-cause-analysis-with-open-distro-for-elasticsearch-open-distro/1805/1 "2019-11-01T16:27:36Z")
If you’re interested in the operational behavior of your Elasticsearch cluster, then root cause analysis can help you identify fundamental issues that affect availability and performance of the cluster. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a problem solving technique used to examine symptoms of problems you’re interested in solving and to work backwards from those symptoms to the causes of the problems. * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/blog/open%20distro%20for%20elasticsearch%20updates/2019/10/Introducing-Root-Cause-Analysis-with-Open-Distro-for-Elasticsearch/](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/blog/open%20distro%20for%20elasticsearch%20updates/2019/10/Introducing-Root-Cause-Analysis-with-Open-Distro-for-Elasticsearch/) ---
**Author:** ![kris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/kris/32/2208_2.png) [@kris](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/introducing-root-cause-analysis-with-open-distro-for-elasticsearch-open-distro/1805/2 "2023-01-21T00:10:47Z")
Closed on January 21, 2023, 12:10am UTC