FaulT-Bench: Towards Benchmarking Network Troubleshooting LLM Agents under Unreliable User Tickets
LLM-based agents are increasingly proposed for network fault diagnosis, but existing benchmarks evaluate them only on accurate tickets and always assume a fault is present, conditions rarely met in practice. We present FaulT-Bench, a benchmark of 200 troubleshooting scenarios across eight network topologies, five reimplemented from public practitioner labs, spanning genuine faults, false fault reports, incorrect device attribution, and incorrect root-cause claims. To isolate how ticket wording affects diagnosis, we further rewrite 72 false-premise tickets into five reporter personas that vary reporter confidence and verifiable detail one factor at a time, holding the network state fixed. Our automated harness deploys each scenario in Kathará, lets agents interact through the NIKA tool interface, and scores free-text diagnoses with an LLM judge across outcome, fix, and reasoning quality. Evaluating SADE, ReAct, and Claude Code, we find all three are near-saturated on accurate tickets and robust to misdirection, yet degrade sharply when the network is healthy and the ticket is wrong, probing until a benign condition can be promoted to a root cause rather than concluding nothing is wrong. Persona rewrites show that how a ticket is written matters more than what it claims: a confidently wrong report is handled about as well as an accurate one, while a vague, underspecified report degrades performance sharply. The three agents also fail differently, from constant over-diagnosis to unanswered runs, at very different cost. These results position FaulT-Bench as a benchmark for developing agentic systems that can reason reliably over the noisy, unreliable tickets of real-world network troubleshooting.
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