Performance anomaly detection in web services: An RNN-based approach using dynamic quality of service features

Performance anomaly detection is the process of identifying occurrences that do not conform to expected behavior or correlate with other incidents or events in time series data. Anomaly detection has been applied to areas such as fraud detection, intrusion detection systems, and network systems. In this paper, we propose an anomaly detection framework that uses dynamic features of quality of service that are collected in a simulated setup. Three variants of recurrent neural networks-SimpleRNN, long short term memory, and gated recurrent unit are evaluated. The results reveal that the proposed method effectively detects anomalies in web services with high accuracy. The performance of the proposed anomaly detection framework is superior to that of existing approaches using maximum accuracy and detection rate metrics. © 2020 Tech Science Press. All rights reserved.