Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

IT operations analytics

Based on records of a large number of transactions, association rule learning is well-suited to be applied to the data that is routinely collected in day-to-day IT operations, enabling IT operations analytics tools to detect frequent patterns and identify critical changes. IT specialists need to see the big picture and understand, for example, how a problem on a database could impact an application server.

For a specific day, IT operations may take in a variety of alerts, presenting them in a transactional database. Using an association rule-learning algorithm, IT operations analytics tools can correlate and detect the frequent patterns of alerts appearing together. This can lead to a better understanding about how ...