Set an anomaly threshold on a signal with a 5x daily cycle
Measurement & estimationHardProblem. Your stall-rate detector fires about five times a night and roughly 40% of those pages are false alarms. Session volume swings 5x between the overnight trough and the evening peak. An engineer suggests raising the threshold until the false alarms stop. What do you do?
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