Method for monitoring dependent metric streams for anomalies
US7836356B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 28, 2008 |
| Grant date | Nov 16, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 7, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/008
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for monitoring dependent metric streams for anomalies including identifying a plurality of sets of dependent metric streams from a plurality of metric streams of a computer system by measuring an association of the plurality of metric streams using a statistical dependency measure analysis, wherein each set includes a plurality of the dependent metric streams and each metric stream includes a plurality of data, determining a subset of the plurality of sets of dependent metric streams to monitor by selecting a quantity of the sets of dependent metric streams that have a highest statistical dependency, cleaning the data of each set of dependent metric streams of the subset by identifying and removing outlier data, fitting a probability density function to the cleaned data of each set of dependent metric streams of the subset, wherein the probability density function is a likelihood function that provides a likelihood of an occurrence of the cleaned data, determining a detection threshold that is a lower threshold on the likelihood of the occurrence of the cleaned data of each set of dependent metric streams of the subset based on the likelihood function, detecting an anomaly…
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