The present invention provides a fault analysis method and device for a communication link. The method includes: obtaining a network topology, and using the network topology to determine a chain object and a ring object; when an interruption alarm is obtained, obtaining the interruption location where the type alarm occurs; if the interruption type alarm occurs on the network element device, when the communication link between the source network element device and the destination network element device passes through the link object, it is judged whether the link object contains the network element device. element device; if yes, determine that the communication link between the source network element device and the destination network element device has been interrupted. Through the technical solution of the present invention, the workload of manual analysis is reduced, the time for failure analysis is reduced, the service of the user is restored as soon as possible, and the user experience is improved. It can quickly analyze a batch of communication link faults, improve the efficiency of fault analysis, and reduce the pressure on the system caused by fault analysis. It is possible to analyze only the communication link that may have a fault, thereby improving the accuracy of the analysis.