# Synthetic Time Series for Anomaly Detection in Cloud Microservices

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00006 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.00006/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 16 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 21 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Robust Multimodal Failure Detection for Microservice Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18985/) (2023)
- [Twin Graph-based Anomaly Detection via Attentive Multi-Modal Learning for Microservice System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.04701/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper proposes a framework for time series generation built to investigate anomaly detection in cloud microservices. In the field of cloud computing, ensuring the reliability of microservices is of paramount concern and yet a remarkably challenging task. Despite the large amount of research in this area, validation of anomaly detection algorithms in realistic environments is difficult to achieve. To address this challenge, we propose a framework to mimic the complex time series patterns representative of both normal and anomalous cloud microservices behaviors. We detail the pipeline implementation that allows deployment and management of microservices as well as the theoretical approach required to generate anomalies. Two datasets generated using the proposed framework have been made publicly available through GitHub.