Root Cause Analysis is a step by step method that leads to the discovery of a faults first or root cause. Every equipment failure happens for a number of reasons. There is a definite progression of actions and consequences that lead to a failure. In this tutorial, you are expected to investigate traces of the cause and effect trail from the end failure back to the root cause. Question: An Application running in the system is responding very slowly.

To find out what other causes could be there which can make the problem to occur.

Do try to drill down with 5-Why analysis, tree analysis of the problem and make Fishbone analysis to find out the other causes/category of causes.