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PDL Abstract

RainMon: An Integrated Approach to Mining Bursty Timeseries Monitoring Data

KDD'12, August 12–16, 2012, Beijing, China.

Ilari Shafer, Kai Ren, Vishnu Boddeti, Yashihisa Abe, Gregory R. Ganger, Christos Faloutsos

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/

Metrics like disk activity and network traffic are widespread sources of diagnosis and monitoring information in datacenters and networks. However, as the scale of these systems increases, examining the raw data yields diminishing insight. We present RainMon, a novel end-to-end approach for mining timeseries monitoring data designed to handle its size and unique characteristics. Our system is able to (a) mine large, bursty, real-world monitoring data, (b) find significant trends and anomalies in the data, (c) compress the raw data effectively, and (d) estimate trends to make forecasts. Furthermore, RainMon integrates the full analysis process from data storage to the user interface to provide accessible long-term diagnosis. We apply RainMon to three real-world datasets from production systems and show its utility in discovering anomalous machines and time periods.

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