Detecting Microservice Anti-patterns Using Interactive Service Call Graphs: Effort Assessment

Together with the increasing adoption of microservices, detecting microservice anti-patterns has become a crucial practice. However, the number of tools supporting effective anti-pattern detection is limited. Though involving the human in the loop is useful, it is time-consuming and lacks the accuracy necessary to complete such a task. For such a purpose, we consider visualizing the microservice system architecture using the service view, specifically the service call graph. In this paper, we present a framework to visualize service call graphs in an interactive 3D node-edge model. Utilizing an intermediate representation of the microservice system architecture, we create our interactive model to allow for quicker, more accurate detection.