Real-time event storm detection in a cloud environment

An article of manufacture comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions tangibly embodied thereon which, when implemented, cause a computer to carry out a plurality of method steps comprising:

• receiving a plurality of events via a plurality of probes in a networked environment, each of the plurality of probes monitoring a monitored IT element;
• aggregating the plurality of events received into an event set;
• and
• correlating the plurality of events in the event set via a linear regression technique to determine whether the plurality of events are part of an event storm by determining if the plurality of events in the event set meet one or more event storm criteria via:
• using a determined amount of growth from the linear regression technique to determine a difference between a potential event storm and an outage by comparing a lower bound defining a particular value characterizing an outage with a measured growth.

A system for detecting an event storm in a networked environment, comprising:

• at least one distinct software module, each distinct software module being embodied on a tangible computer-readable medium;
• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the memory and operative for:
• receiving a plurality of events via a plurality of probes in a networked environment, each of the plurality of probes monitoring a monitored IT element;
• aggregating the plurality of events received into an event set;
• and
• correlating the plurality of events in the event set via a linear regression technique to determine whether the plurality of events are part of an event storm by determining if the plurality of events in the event set meet one or more event storm criteria via:
• using a determined amount of growth from the linear regression technique to determine a difference between a potential event storm and an outage by comparing a lower bound defining a particular value characterizing an outage with a measured growth.