Anomaly detection sounds easy until seasonality, cold start, and alert fatigue hit. The signal is modeling the expected baseline (including weekly and daily cycles), choosing unsupervised methods for scarce labels, and tuning to avoid drowning users in false alarms. Here is the design.
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Anomaly detection sounds easy until seasonality, cold start, and alert fatigue hit. The signal is modeling the expected baseline (including weekly and daily cycles), choosing unsupervised methods for scarce labels, and tuning to avoid drowning users in false alarms. Here is the design.
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