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These embodiments permit performance anomaly detection. A computer-implemented technique consists of detecting, by a device operatively coupled to one or more processing units, by analyzing monitoring data of a plurality of performance metrics of a monitored device, at least one of the trends within the data that monitors the relevant performance metrics; removing the device the at least one trend from the data that monitors the respective performance metrics in order to produce altered data for the respective performance metrics; and detecting the device a performance anomaly that is based on the altered data of the respective performance metrics as well as a behavior clustering model with at least one steady state.

The present invention relates to data processing, and more specifically, performance anomaly detection for large-scale computing systems.

This summary is intended to provide a range of ideas in a simple manner that are further described below in the full description. This summary is not designed to highlight the most important features or the most important characteristics of the claimed subject matter or to be a means to be used to restrict the scope of the claims.

It is difficult to monitor the performance, enhance, or study large-scale computing systems. A good example of a large-scale computing system is a huge-scale cloud platform that offers computational services. There is a need for cloud computing platforms to achieve the highest quality and availability requirements.

One aspect of improving the availability and performance is through monitoring different crucial performance indicators of the computing system in order to measure the system’s efficiency and availability. However, the computing system can comprise multipleindependently developed computing devices, which often operate on diverse hardware configurations and across multiple data centers. Such heterogeneity and complexity of the computing system may make monitoring the key performance metrics anddetecting of irregularities in system behavior to be costly and time-consuming.

In accordance with the one or more embodiments there is a computer-implemented method facilitating performance anomaly detection. The computer-implemented method includes the following: detecting, using the device which is operatively connected to one or more processing units, based upon monitoring data of a plurality of performance metrics on a device that is monitored, at least one trend in the data that monitors the performance metrics of each and then removing, by the device, at-least one trend from the monitoring data of the performance metrics to generate modified data of the respective performance metrics, and then detecting, by the device, an anomaly in performance based on the altered data of the performance metrics and a behaviorclustering model comprising at least one steady state.

A method to detect anomalies is provided in accordance with one or more of the embodiments. The apparatus includes one or more memory units that store computer executable components; and a processor, which is connected to thememory and which executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components comprises at least one computer-executable component that: detects, at least one trend within the monitoring data of the respectiveperformance metrics based on monitoring data of a plurality of performance metrics of a monitored device; removes the at least one trend from the monitoring data of the respective performance metrics to generate modified data of the respectiveperformance metrics; and detects a performance anomaly based on the modified data of the respective performance metrics and a behavior clustering model comprising at least one steady state.

According to an aspect of one or more embodiments, there’s computer program products that aid in the detection of performance anomalies in an enormous-scale computing system. The computer program product comprises a computer readable storagemedium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processing unit to cause the processing unit to: detect, by the processing unit, based on monitoring data of a plurality of performance metrics of a monitoreddevice, at least one trend within the monitoring data of the respective performance metrics; remove, by the processing unit, the at least one trend from the monitoring data of the respective performance metrics to generate modified data of the respectiveperformance metrics; and detect, by the processing unit, a performance anomaly based on the modified data of the respective performance metrics and a behavior clustering model comprising at least one steady state.

In addition to the examples and the aspects discussed above, you can also refer to the drawings or read the following descriptions to discover other features and embodiments.

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