Identifying a root cause of alerts within virtualized computing environment monitoring system

Abstract

This disclosure describes techniques for analyzing information generated as a result of monitoring resources within computing environments. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes observing a plurality of alerts generated in response to monitoring resources associated with a plurality of connected elements within a network; determining a plurality of occurrence counts; determining a plurality of concurrent occurrence counts, wherein each of the plurality of concurrent occurrence counts represents a count of concurrent occurrences of two or more of the alerts in the set of historical alerts; and identifying one or more root cause alerts, wherein the one or more root cause alerts are determined based on the plurality of occurrence counts and the plurality of the concurrent occurrence counts, and wherein the one or more root cause alerts are a subset of the plurality of alerts.