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On the effectiveness of isolation-based anomaly detection in cloud data centers

Calheiros, RN ; Ramamohanarao, K ; Buyya, R ; Leckie, C ; Versteeg, S (WILEY, 2017-09-25)

Summary The high volume of monitoring information generated by large‐scale cloud infrastructures poses a challenge to the capacity of cloud providers in detecting anomalies in the infrastructure. Traditional anomaly detection methods are resource‐intensive and computationally complex for training and/or detection, what is undesirable in very dynamic and large‐scale environment such as clouds. Isolation‐based methods have the advantage of low complexity for training and detection and are optimized for detecting failures. In this work, we explore the feasibility of Isolation Forest, an isolation‐based anomaly detection method, to detect anomalies in large‐scale cloud data centers. We propose a method to code time‐series information as extra attributes that enable temporal anomaly detection and establish its feasibility to adapt to seasonality and trends in the time‐series and to be applied online and in real‐time.