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US 11,281,522 · App. 16/556,589 · Granted Mar 22, 2022

Automated detection and classification of dynamic service outages

Inventors: Mangalam Rathinasabapathy (Bellevue, WA); Priyanka Gundeli (Redmond, WA); Rahul Nigam (Bothell, WA); Mark R. Gilbert (Issaquah, WA)
Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,281,522
App. No.
16/556,589
Filed
Aug 30, 2019
Granted
Mar 22, 2022
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2113
USPC
714/4.1
Abstract

Systems and methods for automatically detecting and mitigating errors in a cloud computing environment. One example method includes receiving, from a telemetry server, telemetry data for the cloud computing environment, detecting an error within the cloud computing environment based on the telemetry data, determining an error type for the error based on the telemetry data, determining an impact severity for the error based on the telemetry data, and when the error type is a reportable error type and the impact severity exceeds a predetermined threshold, performing a mitigation action.

Claims (50)

1. A system for automatically detecting and mitigating errors in a cloud computing environment, the system comprising:

an anomaly detection server communicatively coupled to the cloud computing environment, the anomaly detection server including an electronic processor configured to:

receive, from a telemetry server, telemetry data for the cloud computing environment;

detect an error within the cloud computing environment based on the telemetry data;

determine an error type for the error based on the telemetry data;

determine an impact severity for the error based on the telemetry data;

when the error type is a reportable error type and the impact severity exceeds a predetermined threshold, perform a mitigation action; and

when the error type is a reportable error type and the impact severity does not exceed a predetermined threshold, transmit an electronic message including the error,

wherein performing the mitigation action includes issuing a command to a software updater for the cloud computing environment to execute at least one selected from the group consisting of rolling back a deployed software update and halting deployment of a multi-system software update, and

wherein the error is of a reportable error type when the error is one which requires reporting to a system operator of the cloud computing environment.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein

the telemetry data includes natural language associated with the error, and

the electronic processor is configured to determine the error type for the error by analyzing the natural language using a machine learning model.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the machine learning model is trained using historical telemetry data associated with the cloud computing environment.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data includes at least one selected from the group consisting of application usage data, a unified logging service (ULS) tag, a stack trace, a dependency, an event, and a performance metric.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the error type is one selected from the group consisting of a code defect error, a benign error, a service outage error, and an ambiguous error.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic processor is configured to determine the impact severity for the error based on at least one selected from the group consisting of a quantity of users using a feature associated with the error, an access type for a feature associated with the error, a quantity of users experiencing the error, a quantity of sites experiencing the error, and a geographic impact for the error.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic processor is configured to determine the impact severity for the error based on at least one selected from the group consisting of a characteristic of at least one user associated with the error, a characteristic of at least one site associated with the error, a characteristic of at least one device associated with the error, and a characteristic of at least one network associated with the error.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic processor is configured to perform the mitigation action by further performing at least one selected from the group consisting of generating an incident management system log entry and transmitting an electronic message to a partner associated with the error.

9. A method for automatically detecting and mitigating errors in a cloud computing environment, the method comprising:

receiving, from a telemetry server, telemetry data for the cloud computing environment;

detecting an error within the cloud computing environment based on the telemetry data;

determining an error type for the error based on the telemetry data;

determining an impact severity for the error based on the telemetry data; and

when the error type is a reportable error type and the impact severity exceeds a predetermined threshold, performing a mitigation action that includes issuing a command to a software updater for the cloud computing environment to execute at least one selected from the group consisting of rolling back a deployed software update and halting deployment of a multi-system software update, and

wherein the error is of a reportable error type when the error is one which requires reporting to a system operator of the cloud computing environment.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

when the error type is a reportable error type and the impact severity does not exceed a predetermined threshold, transmitting an electronic message including the error.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein

receiving telemetry data for the cloud computing environment includes receiving natural language associated with the error; and

determining the error type for the error includes analyzing the natural language using a machine learning model.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein analyzing the natural language using a machine learning model includes analyzing the natural language using a machine learning model trained using historical telemetry data associated with the cloud computing environment.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein receiving telemetry data includes receiving at least one selected from the group consisting of application usage data, a unified logging service (ULS) tag, a stack trace, a dependency, an event, and a performance metric.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining the error type includes determining one selected from the group consisting of a code defect error, a benign error, a service outage error, and an ambiguous error.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining an impact severity for the error includes determining the impact severity based on at least one selected from the group consisting of a quantity of users using a feature associated with the error, an access type for a feature associated with the error, a quantity of users experiencing the error, a quantity of sites experiencing the error, and a geographic impact for the error.

16. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining the impact severity for the error includes determining the impact severity based on at least one selected from the group consisting of a characteristic of at least one user associated with the error, a characteristic of at least one site associated with the error, a characteristic of at least one device associated with the error, and a characteristic of at least one network associated with the error.

17. The method of claim 9 , wherein performing the mitigation action includes further performing at least one selected from the group consisting of generating an incident management system log entry and transmitting an electronic message to a partner associated with the error.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions executable by an electronic processor to perform a set of functions, the set of functions comprising:

receiving, from a telemetry server, telemetry data for the cloud computing environment;

detecting an error within the cloud computing environment based on the telemetry data;

determining an error type for the error based on the telemetry data;

determining an impact severity for the error based on the telemetry data;

when the error type is a reportable error type and the impact severity exceeds a predetermined threshold, performing a mitigation action; and

when the error type is a reportable error type and the impact severity does not exceed a predetermined threshold, transmit an electronic message including the error,

wherein performing the mitigation action includes issuing a command to a software updater for the cloud computing environment to execute at least one selected from the group consisting of rolling back a deployed software update and halting deployment of a multi-system software update, and

wherein the error is of a reportable error type when the error is one which requires reporting to a system operator of the cloud computing environment.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 13 , the set of functions further comprising:

receiving telemetry data for the cloud computing environment includes receiving natural language associated with the error; and

determining an error type for the error includes analyzing the natural language using a machine learning model trained using historical telemetry data associated with the cloud computing environment.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the error type is one selected from the group consisting of a code defect error, a benign error, a service outage error, and an ambiguous error.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 16, 2019
From: RATHINASABAPATHY, MANGALAM; GUNDELI, PRIYANKA; NIGAM, RAHUL; GILBERT, MARK R.
To: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
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