Methods and systems for enhanced cluster health monitoring and unhealthy node detection through drop out-accumulation techniques

A computer-implemented method for detecting non-performant computing nodes within a cluster of computing nodes, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• initializing an assessment of health of a cluster of computing nodes based on one or more assessment instructions, wherein initializing the assessment of health includes:
• identifying a plurality of computing nodes within the cluster of computing nodes that are in an idle state;
• assigning at least a subset of computing nodes of the plurality of computing nodes in the idle state to a queue for testing a state of health of each of the subset of computing nodes;
• defining a plurality of pairings of computing nodes based on the subset of computing nodes, wherein each pairing of computing nodes of the plurality of pairings of computing nodes includes a distinct paired combination of computing nodes selected from the subset of computing nodes;
• executing the assessment of health against the plurality of pairings of computing nodes, wherein the executing the assessment of health includes:
• implementing a bi-directional testing by each pairing of computing nodes of the plurality of pairing of computing nodes, wherein each pairing of computing nodes executes one or more node health tests based on testing communications between nodes defining each respective pairing of computing nodes of the plurality of pairings of computing nodes;
• obtaining assessment data based on the execution of the assessment of health by the plurality of pairings of computing nodes, wherein the assessment data includes efficacy metrics for each pairing of computing nodes of the plurality of pairings of computing nodes, the efficacy metrics relating to a value of a data processing performance or a value of a data transmission performance of each pairing of computing nodes resulting from the execution of the one or more node health tests;
• identifying as likely unhealthy nodes one or more computing nodes failing to satisfy one or more health efficacy thresholds based on the assessment data;
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• altering a state of the one or more computing nodes identified as likely unhealthy nodes from an online state to an offline state thereby mitigating a likely degradation of the cluster of computing nodes.

A computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing computer instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, perform operations comprising:

• implementing an assessment interface in operable command communication with an administrative computing node of a cluster of computing nodes, the administrative computing node being network to computing nodes of the cluster of computing nodes for implementing an assessment of health;
• identifying a quora of computing nodes of the cluster of computing nodes, the quora of computing nodes including a subset of computing nodes within the cluster of computing nodes having hardware components that are homogeneous;
• signaling, via the assessment interface, the administrative computing node to cause the quora of computing nodes to execute the assessment of health, wherein executing the assessment of health includes:
• defining, for each test cycle of a plurality of test cycles of the assessment of health, a plurality of distinct pairs of computing nodes from the quora of computing nodes, wherein each test cycle of the assessment of health assesses a different combination of paired computing nodes of the plurality of distinct pairs of computing nodes;
• implementing a bi-directional testing by each pair of computing nodes of the plurality of distinct pairs of computing nodes;
• evaluating bi-directional testing data obtained based on the execution of the assessment of health of the quora of computing nodes;
• designating at least one computing node of the quora of computing nodes as unhealthy when the evaluation indicates that a subset of the bi-directional testing data associated with the at least one computing node fails to satisfy one or more benchmark node performance values;
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• altering the quora of computing nodes by removing the designated unhealthy computing node to mitigate a likely performance degradation of the cluster of computing nodes.