The invention relates to a remote diagnosis method of electric energy meter failures. The remote diagnosis method comprises the following steps that 1, data of an electric energy meter is collected, and a meta event which comprises event identification, the electric energy meter number and event information is generated; 2, data preprocessing is carried out on the meta event; 3, a diagnosis knowledge library which comprises diagnosis rules of all failures of the electric energy meter is established, and it is judged whether or not the meta event belongs to a certain failure according to all the diagnosis rules in the diagnosis knowledge library. Compared with the prior art, failure diagnosis data is established into the single independent meta event, the format of monitoring data can be unified, the universality of data is improved, and the failure diagnosis efficiency is improved.