System and method of monitoring and measuring cluster performance hosted by an IAAS provider by means of outlier detection
US9514387B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 31, 2013 |
| Grant date | Dec 6, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 19, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/10
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a system for monitoring and analyzing operation of a widely distributed service operated by an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) tenant but deployed on a set of virtual resources controlled by an independent IaaS provider. The set of virtual resources can be organized into clusters in which resources are expected to behave similarly to each other. Virtual resources that do not behave similar to peer resources in the same cluster, i.e., outliers, may be indicative of problems that need to be addressed. The monitoring system can collect performance metric data from virtual resources, and compare the performance of each virtual resource in a cluster with the performance of every other virtual resource in the cluster to detect outliers. This comparison can involve correlation analysis, ANOVA analysis, or regression analysis.
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