Embodiments are provided for using association rule mining to analyze performance counters of a mobile network, including converting a plurality of performance counters of a mobile network into a plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs), quantizing each KPI into one value of a set of values associated with that KPI, creating a set of items having multiple subsets corresponding to respective KPIs, where each item of a subset corresponds to a respective value of a particular set of values associated with a particular KPI, and generating association rules based, at least in part, on the set of items. In further embodiments, the quantizing the plurality of KPIs includes quantizing a first KPI into a first value of a set of three or more values associated with the first KPI.