Anomaly Detector v1.1

Anomaly Detector is an AI service with a set of APIs, which enables you to monitor and detect anomalies in your time series data with little ML knowledge, either batch validation or real-time inference. It includes the following features:

  • Univariate Anomaly Detection - Detect different types of anomalies in single variable.
  • Multivariate Anomaly Detection - Detect different types of anomalies in multiple variables from your equipment or system.

Univariate Anomaly Detection - Detect change point for the entire series

Evaluate change point score of every series point

Select the testing console in the region where you created your resource:

Open API testing console

Request URL

Request headers

string
Media type of the body sent to the API.
string
Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Cognitive Services accounts.

Request body

Time series points and granularity is needed. Advanced model parameters can also be set in the request if needed.

{
  "series": [
    {
      "timestamp": "string",
      "value": 0.0
    }
  ],
  "granularity": "yearly",
  "customInterval": 0,
  "period": 0,
  "stableTrendWindow": 0,
  "threshold": 0.0
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "The request of change point detection.",
  "required": [
    "granularity",
    "series"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "series": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Time series data points. Points should be sorted by timestamp in ascending order to match the change point detection result.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "description": "The definition of input timeseries points.",
        "required": [
          "value"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "timestamp": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "date-time",
            "description": "Optional argument, timestamp of a data point (ISO8601 format)."
          },
          "value": {
            "type": "number",
            "format": "float",
            "description": "The measurement of that point, should be float."
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "granularity": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Can only be one of yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, minutely or secondly. Granularity is used for verify whether input series is valid.",
      "x-ms-enum": {
        "name": "TimeGranularity",
        "modelAsString": false,
        "values": [
          {
            "value": "yearly"
          },
          {
            "value": "monthly"
          },
          {
            "value": "weekly"
          },
          {
            "value": "daily"
          },
          {
            "value": "hourly"
          },
          {
            "name": "perMinute",
            "value": "minutely"
          },
          {
            "name": "perSecond",
            "value": "secondly"
          },
          {
            "value": "microsecond"
          },
          {
            "value": "none"
          }
        ]
      },
      "enum": [
        "yearly",
        "monthly",
        "weekly",
        "daily",
        "hourly",
        "minutely",
        "secondly",
        "microsecond",
        "none"
      ]
    },
    "customInterval": {
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "int32",
      "description": "Custom Interval is used to set non-standard time interval, for example, if the series is 5 minutes, request can be set as {\"granularity\":\"minutely\", \"customInterval\":5}."
    },
    "period": {
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "int32",
      "description": "Optional argument, periodic value of a time series. If the value is null or does not present, the API will determine the period automatically."
    },
    "stableTrendWindow": {
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "int32",
      "description": "Optional argument, advanced model parameter, a default stableTrendWindow will be used in detection."
    },
    "threshold": {
      "type": "number",
      "format": "float",
      "description": "Optional argument, advanced model parameter, between 0.0-1.0, the lower the value is, the larger the trend error will be which means less change point will be accepted."
    }
  }
}

Response 200

Successful operation.

{
  "period": 0,
  "isChangePoint": [
    true
  ],
  "confidenceScores": [
    0.0
  ]
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "The response of change point detection.",
  "properties": {
    "period": {
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "int32",
      "readOnly": true,
      "description": "Frequency extracted from the series, zero means no recurrent pattern has been found."
    },
    "isChangePoint": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "isChangePoint contains change point properties for each input point. True means an anomaly either negative or positive has been detected. The index of the array is consistent with the input series.",
      "items": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "readOnly": true
      }
    },
    "confidenceScores": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "the change point confidence of each point",
      "items": {
        "type": "number",
        "format": "float",
        "readOnly": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Response 500

Error response.

{
  "code": "InvalidCustomInterval",
  "message": "string"
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "Error information returned by the API.",
  "properties": {
    "code": {
      "description": "The error code.",
      "enum": [
        "InvalidCustomInterval",
        "BadArgument",
        "InvalidGranularity",
        "InvalidPeriod",
        "InvalidModelArgument",
        "InvalidSeries",
        "InvalidJsonFormat",
        "RequiredGranularity",
        "RequiredSeries",
        "InvalidImputeMode",
        "InvalidImputeFixedValue"
      ],
      "x-ms-enum": {
        "name": "AnomalyDetectorErrorCodes",
        "modelAsString": true
      }
    },
    "message": {
      "description": "A message explaining the error reported by the service.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X POST "https://westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}" 
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            var uri = "https://westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect?" + queryString;

            HttpResponseMessage response;

            // Request body
            byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");

            using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
            {
               content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
               response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
            }

        }
    }
}	
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect");


            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
            request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "POST",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com')
    conn.request("POST", "/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com')
    conn.request("POST", "/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://westus3.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/anomalydetector/v1.1/timeseries/changepoint/detect')


request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body