Site Reliability and Outage Management
CCSM: Scalable statistical anomaly detection to resolve app crashes faster

CCSM: Scalable statistical anomaly detection to resolve app crashes faster

11/26/2019 · Rebecca Qian, Wonhee Park, Vijay Murali, Satish Chandra

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Introduced CCSM (Continuous Contrast Set Mining), a novel ML-based anomaly-detection framework to accelerate the diagnosis and resolution of app crashes. CCSM extends contrast set mining techniques to continuous data, enabling engineers to identify statistically significant feature sets that differentiate crash groups from normal behavior. The algorithm is over 40 times faster than naive approaches and uses a tree search framework with ANOVA F-tests for significance and a user-defined threshold for practical significance, improving debugging efficiency for high-dimensional and mixed-type data.

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