Detecting performance degradation in remotely deployed applications

Abstract

Some embodiments of the present invention are directed towards techniques for validating performance degradation of cloud deployed application from neighbor based variability. Historical runs of an application deployed in a cloud environment are received. In these embodiments, a subset of these historical runs, using associated performance metrics recorded during the historical runs, are compared against performance metrics of a current version of the application which is deployed in a cloud environment to determine a subset of historical runs similar to the current version. The determined subset is then used to draw comparisons with performance metrics of a baseline run of the application to validate if a performance degradation has occurred by updating the application to the current version, reducing the impact of neighbor-based variability on evaluating performance degradation. Detailed performance analysis resources are less likely to be expended on performance degradation caused by neighbor activities in the cloud environment.