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TightFault Revamp 18.9 – Technical Write-Up

12. Open Research Directions

• Explainable ML for multivariate time series anomalies.
• Transfer learning for anomaly detectors across tenants.
• Formal verification of remediation policies.
• Causal discovery tailored to microservice topologies.

4. Implementation Highlights

• Fault boundary layers added between arbitration, resource, and execution units.
• Tightness score now enforced at build time (max 45% coupling; previously 72% in hotspots).
• Fault injection testing expanded to cover FaultID 18 (timeout cascade) and FaultID 9 (state corruption).

5. Detection Algorithms & Design

• Hybrid approach rationale: combine deterministic rules for known invariants with probabilistic ML for unknown anomalies.
• Preprocessing: normalization, seasonality removal, missing data handling, downsampling, feature engineering (derivatives, rolling stats).
• Rule-based: SLO-based alerts, adaptive thresholds using moving baselines.
• Statistical detectors:
  • Change-point detection: Pruned Exact Linear Time (PELT) for abrupt shifts.
  • EWMA for small drifts.
• ML detectors:
  • Autoencoder on multivariate windows (reconstruction error thresholding).
  • Isolation Forest on aggregated features.
  • LSTM/Transformer forecasting with prediction interval violations.
• Ensemble scoring: weighted voting with dynamic weight learning based on historical precision/recall per detector.
• Calibration & alert suppression: silence windows, correlated-signal collapse (group alerts across services), deduplication.

7. Automated Remediation & Safety

• Remediation patterns: restart pod, scale up/down, failover, configuration rollback, circuit breaker activation, traffic shifting.
• Policy engine (OPA/Rego) to enforce:
  • Preconditions (e.g., only auto-restart stateless pods).
  • RBAC: which policies can act automatically vs require approval.
  • Rate limits on remediation actions.
• Canary and progressive remediation: test fix on subset, monitor, then expand.
• Human-in-the-loop: alert with one-click approve/reject; automated backout on negative signals.
• Audit trail and simulation mode for safe testing.

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