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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
May. 05, 2022
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey, Fremont, CA (US);
Mohil Khare, San Jose, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Segments of a network having connectivity issues are detected in a network environment that may include one or more cloud computing platforms. A mutual information algorithm is used to determine relevance of network element factors, a subset of factors are selected based on relevance, and clustered according to values for the subset of factors, and quality of the clusters evaluated. Various thresholds for selecting the subset of factors may be used to determine which provides improved cluster quality. An approach for performing root cause analysis of events in a network environment selects bad events for logging alerts based on whether a factor is found to distinguish bad events according to a mutual information algorithm. Events for alerts may be aggregated based on temporal proximity or similarity. Visualization may be performed using Sankey diagrams with each column representing a factor.