A quick (25 minute) presentation on how to view the use of anomalies in application operations automation. Presented by James Urquhart and Rob Dickenson of Dell at Defrag 2014.

1. Performance
Anomalies
…and the Automation that Loves Them
James Urquhart, Director of Product Dell Cloud
Manager
Rob Dickinson, Senior Software Engineering
Manager, Foglight APM

2. 2
OODA and Automation
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3. 3
OODA and Automation
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Monitoring
And
Observation
Analytics
Process
Rules Applied
to Results
Automation

4. Anomalies in production
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5. Applying Analytics to Automation
Build Time Operations
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(w/ human evaluation)
Operations
(w/ auto evaluation)
Examples:
• Code evaluation
• Test results
• Performance
• Usability
• Stability
Examples:
• Performance trends
applied to manual
automation changes
Examples:
• Performance trends
triggering autoscaling,
autorecovery, etc
• Machine learning of
scale tuning
• Machine learning of
configuration tuning.
Loop Monitoring
Automatio
n
Application
/Service

6. Context of Performance
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7. Granularity and Dimensionality of Performance
Averages Distributions
>20 types of dimensions that affect performance
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