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Ternary Anomaly Structure

Structure documentation for a cloud cost anomaly detected by Ternary's ML-powered algorithms.

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Cloud Cost ManagementCost OptimizationFinOpsGoogle CloudKubernetesMulti-Cloud

Ternary Cloud Cost Anomaly is a JSON Structure definition published by Ternary.

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{
  "name": "Ternary Cloud Cost Anomaly",
  "description": "Structure documentation for a cloud cost anomaly detected by Ternary's ML-powered algorithms.",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "id",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Unique system-generated identifier for the anomaly"
    },
    {
      "name": "cloud_provider",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Cloud provider where anomaly was detected",
      "enum": ["gcp", "aws", "azure", "oci", "alibaba"]
    },
    {
      "name": "service",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Cloud service that generated the anomalous costs (e.g., BigQuery, EC2, Azure Functions)"
    },
    {
      "name": "severity",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Severity level based on cost delta magnitude",
      "enum": ["low", "medium", "high", "critical"]
    },
    {
      "name": "status",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Current resolution workflow status",
      "enum": ["open", "acknowledged", "resolved"]
    },
    {
      "name": "expected_cost",
      "type": "number",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Baseline cost expected based on ML historical analysis (USD)"
    },
    {
      "name": "actual_cost",
      "type": "number",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Actual observed cost that triggered anomaly detection (USD)"
    },
    {
      "name": "cost_delta",
      "type": "number",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Difference: actual_cost minus expected_cost (USD)"
    },
    {
      "name": "detected_at",
      "type": "string (date-time)",
      "required": true,
      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp of when anomaly was first detected"
    },
    {
      "name": "acknowledged_at",
      "type": "string (date-time)",
      "required": false,
      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp of when anomaly was acknowledged by a team member"
    },
    {
      "name": "comment",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Optional comment added when acknowledging"
    },
    {
      "name": "affected_resources",
      "type": "array[string]",
      "required": false,
      "description": "List of cloud resource IDs contributing to the anomaly"
    }
  ]
}