Automated anomaly detection and performance modeling of enterprise applications

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Cherkasova, Ludmila ^a   Ozonat, Kivanc ^a   Mi, Ningfang ^b   Symons, Julie ^c   Smirni, Evgenia ^d  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^d The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Capacity planning; Multitier applications; Online algorithms; Performance modeling

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY DETECTION; CAPACITY PLANNING; MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE MODELING;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; LOSSES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 73349094671     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1629087.1629089     Document Type: Article

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