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Real-Time Anomaly Detection at Scale

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Problem

Design a real-time anomaly detection pipeline that ingests millions of spans, metrics, and logs per second.

Clarify detection latency, alert precision and recall, retention, tenant isolation, and cost requirements. Describe the end-to-end ingestion, feature computation, anomaly scoring, alerting, feedback, training, and monitoring architecture. Explain how the design handles seasonality, new services, noisy telemetry, delayed labels, feature drift, training-serving skew, and failures at scale.