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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on May 3, 2024

Metric anomaly detection for subset of alerts based on user-defined rules

In CP4AIOps 4.3, we introduced the ability to measure the number of events coming through the system and then send them to Metrics to determine when event volumes change significantly. The number of events coming through the system is defined as alertGroup in the metric search UI, but this may be too broad across all alerts to generate impactful anomalies. The user should be able to define additional alert groups for certain categories (e.g. e.g. by location, by datacenter, application, etc.) where it would make sense to run metric anomaly detection. 

Bank of America wanted us to consider the following use case: "For example: What if we normally get a memory alert once a month and then all of a sudden we get a memory alert 4 times in a day?" In order to identify these patterns, we might first have to create an alert group based on rules like "includes the string 'memory alert' in alert description field" and "alerts must be coming from the same resource group. The ability to define an alert group like this would have to be defined in the UI like the way scope-based rules are defined.

Idea priority Medium