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> Avoiding magic includes avoiding ML? When it comes to alerting, yes. I've seen it tried many times by competent engineers. The problem is that once you get b
by bbrazil 11y ago
> Avoiding magic includes avoiding ML?
When it comes to alerting, yes. I've seen it tried many times by competent engineers. The problem is that once you get beyond toy examples into situations with even a mere 10k time series there's so much noise that you can't get any useful signal.
> We could really use something like Outalator, though.
I've not found anything like it yet, unfortunately. Hopefully someone will be inspired to write one by the book, there should be enough detail there to do it.
- orestes910 11y agoForgive my ignorance here, but what is he referring to when he says "Magic Systems" and "ML"?
- bbrazil 11y agoML is machine learning. Magic Systems is anything other than a manually configured (mostly) simple threshold for alerting.