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AIOps for BSS: Anomaly Detection & Root Cause

Using machine learning on metrics, logs and counters to spot problems in charging, provisioning and billing early, and to find the cause faster.

Metrics & logsAnomaly detectionRoot causeProactive alertsDashboards
MinutesDetection instead of hours
5 stepsPlot, trend, detect, explain, predict
Less noiseFewer, smarter alerts

Why AIOps

BSS platforms produce huge amounts of operational data: charging traffic counters, provisioning success rates, API latencies, logs and infrastructure metrics. Static thresholds either miss problems or raise too many alarms, especially after configuration changes or seasonal peaks.

AIOps uses machine learning to learn normal behaviour, detect real anomalies and point to the likely cause, so operations teams act sooner and with less noise.

A maturity path

Five generic capabilities, each building on the last.

  1. 1
    Plot metrics

    Collect and visualise key business and technical metrics in one place.

  2. 2
    Depict trends

    Show seasonality and trends: daily peaks, month-end bill runs, campaigns.

  3. 3
    Detect anomalies

    Learn normal patterns and flag deviations in real time.

  4. 4
    Identify root cause

    Correlate anomalies across components, logs and recent changes to suggest the cause.

  5. 5
    Proactive detection

    Predict problems before they affect customers and trigger runbooks.

Typical use cases

Charging traffic

Sudden drops or spikes in charging requests, failure codes or response times.

Subscriber provisioning

Rising activation failures after a configuration or network change.

Bill run health

Bill runs slower than usual, or jobs failing in a pattern.

Infrastructure

CPU, memory, disk and database anomalies linked to business impact.

Reference architecture

Built from common open-source and cloud components.

Collect

Agents and pipelines gather metrics, counters and logs, ideally using the OpenTelemetry standard.

Store

A time-series and search store for metrics and logs.

Analyse

Models for seasonality, anomaly scoring and correlation, with configuration per use case.

Act

Dashboards, alerts and links to runbooks and ticketing.

Lessons learned

Standards & references

TMF642Alarm Management API
TMF621Trouble Ticket API
OpenTelemetryOpen standard for metrics, logs and traces

Related pages

This page describes generic industry practice and public standards. It is not based on, and does not describe, any particular vendor's product or operator's systems.