Subj : Timestamp analysis behind Alibaba Cloud server failure prediction
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Sep 03 2024 18:45:05

Timestamp analysis behind Alibaba Cloud server failure prediction strength

Date:
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:35:00 +0000

Description:
Alibaba Cloud has enhanced BERT with its own dataset of 2.7 billion logs to 
enhance server failure prediction.

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Alibaba Cloud has shared more information on a technology it uses to enhance 
fault prediction and detection for its servers, claiming a 10% improvement 
compared with existing models. 

The Chinese companys latest tool, Time-Aware Attention-Based Transformer 
(TAAT), addressed the limitations of existing machine learning tools that 
overlook the importance of log timestamps. 

Detailed in a new research paper co-written by Alibaba Cloud workers and a 
researcher from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, TAAT 
uses timestamps to make failure predictions more accurate. Alibaba Cloud 
boost server failure predictions by 10% 

The papers authors highlight growing concern over server reliability and 
stability in light of the wide-spread applications of cloud computing , which 
impact the availability of virtual machines. 

Noting that previous failures can help companies predict future failures, the 
company has opted to use timestamps to improve accuracy. 

TAAT integrates semantic and temporal data by using the Google-developed 
Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) language 
model, which Alibaba says is good for analyzing log data. An enhancement to 
BERTs capabilities add a time-aware attention mechanism. 

Consequentially, Alibaba Cloud is now using TAAT in daily operations to 
improve predictions. The company has also released the real-world cloud 
computing failure prediction dataset used in its study to help further 
developments from the community. The dataset contains approximately 2.7 
billion logs from around 300,000 servers, collected over a four-month period, 
and is believed to be the largest log of its kind. 

With TAAT, Alibaba hopes for more reliable cloud infrastructure, and while 
the tool is not yet available for public download, it paves the way for an 
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https://www.techradar.com/pro/timestamp-analysis-behind-alibaba-cloud-failure-
prediction-strength


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