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From: Matt Stump [mailto:mrevilgn...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 7:56 AM To: user Subject: Re: Looking for feedback on automated root-cause system For some reason responses to the thread didn't hit my work email, I didn't see the responses until I check from my personal. The way that the system works is that we install a collector that pulls a bunch of metrics from each node and sends it up to our NOC every minute. We've got a bunch of stream processors that take this data and do a bunch of things with it. We've got some dumb ones that check for common miss-configurations, bugs etc.. they also populate dashboards and a couple of minimal graphs. The more intelligent agents take a look at the metrics and they start generating a bunch of calculated/scaled metrics and events. If one of these triggers a threshold then we kick off the ML that does classification using the stored data to classify the root cause, and point you to the correct knowledge base article with remediation steps. Because we've got he cluster history we can identify a breach, and give you an SLA in about 1 minute. The goal is to get you from 0 to resolution as quickly as possible. We're looking for feedback on the existing system, do these events make sense, do I need to beef up a knowledge base article, did it classify correctly, or is there some big bug that everyone is running into that needs to be publicized. We're also looking for where to go next, which models are going to make your life easier? The system works for C*, Elastic and Kafka. We'll be doing some blog posts explaining in more detail how it works and some of the interesting things we've found. For example everything everyone thought they knew about Cassandra thread pool tuning is wrong, nobody really knows how to tune Kafka for large messages, or that there are major issues with the Kubernetes charts that people are using. On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:40 PM Kenneth Brotman <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: Any information you can share on the inputs it needs/uses would be helpful. Kenneth Brotman From: daemeon reiydelle [mailto:daeme...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:27 PM To: user Subject: Re: Looking for feedback on automated root-cause system Welcome to the world of testing predictive analytics. I will pass this on to my folks at Accenture, know of a couple of C* clients we run, wondering what you had in mind? Daemeon C.M. Reiydelle email: daeme...@gmail.com San Francisco 1.415.501.0198/London 44 020 8144 9872/Skype daemeon.c.mreiydelle On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:35 PM Matthew Stump <mst...@vorstella.com> wrote: Howdy, I’ve been engaged in the Cassandra user community for a long time, almost 8 years, and have worked on hundreds of Cassandra deployments. One of the things I’ve noticed in myself and a lot of my peers that have done consulting, support or worked on really big deployments is that we get burnt out. We fight a lot of the same fires over and over again, and don’t get to work on new or interesting stuff Also, what we do is really hard to transfer to other people because it’s based on experience. Over the past year my team and I have been working to overcome that gap, creating an assistant that’s able to scale some of this knowledge. We’ve got it to the point where it’s able to classify known root causes for an outage or an SLA breach in Cassandra with an accuracy greater than 90%. It can accurately diagnose bugs, data-modeling issues, or misuse of certain features and when it does give you specific remediation steps with links to knowledge base articles. We think we’ve seeded our database with enough root causes that it’ll catch the vast majority of issues but there is always the possibility that we’ll run into something previously unknown like CASSANDRA-11170 (one of the issues our system found in the wild). We’re looking for feedback and would like to know if anyone is interested in giving the product a trial. The process would be a collaboration, where we both get to learn from each other and improve how we’re doing things. Thanks, Matt Stump
