An Intelligent Anomaly Detection Scheme for Micro-services Architectures with Temporal and Spatial Data Analysis

Abstract

Service-oriented 5G mobile systems are commonly believed to reshape the landscape of the Internet with ubiquitous services and infrastructures. The micro-services architecture has attracted significant interests from both academia and industry, offering the capabilities of agile development and scale capacity. The emerging mobile edge computing is able to firmly maintain efficient resource utility of 5G systems, which can be empowered by micro-services. However, such capabilities impose significant challenges on micro-services system management. Although substantial data are produced for system maintenance, the interleaved temporal-spatial information has not been fully exploited. Additionally, the flooding data impose heavy pressures on automatic analysis tools. Automated digestion of data is in an urgent need for system maintenance. In this paper, we propose a new learning-based anomaly detection framework for service-provision systems with micro-services architectures using service execution logs (temporally) and query traces (spatially). It includes two major parts: logging and tracing representation, and two-stage identification via a sequential model and temporal-spatial analysis. The experimental results show that the temporal-spatial features can accurately capture the nature of operational data. The proposed framework performs well on anomaly detection, and helps gain in-depth insights of large-scale systems.