adaptive-alert-triage-Full

Adaptive Alert Triage & Incident Response Environment (OpenEnv)

Version: 0.1.0
Framework: OpenEnv
Status: Alpha

Overview

An OpenEnv-compliant reinforcement learning environment that simulates real-time IT alert triage and incident response. Agents must intelligently prioritize alerts under resource constraints while preventing cascading system failures in a partially observable, dynamic environment.

Why RL Over Rule-Based Systems?

Environment Specification

State Space (Partial Observability)

Visible Features:

• alerts: List of active alerts with:
  • id: Unique alert identifier
  • visible_severity: Noisy severity score (0.0-1.0)
  • confidence: Detection confidence (0.0-1.0)
  • alert_type: Category (CPU, MEMORY, DISK, NETWORK, APPLICATION, SECURITY)
  • age: Time steps since alert generation
• system_load: Current system resource utilization (0.0-1.0)
• queue_length: Number of unprocessed alerts
• time_remaining: Steps left in episode

Hidden Features (ground truth for reward computation):

• true_severity: Actual criticality of each alert
• correlations: Alert dependency graph
• future_failures: Predicted cascading failure probabilities

Action Space

Per alert, the agent can execute:

• INVESTIGATE: Allocate resources to diagnose (costly but resolves critical issues)
• IGNORE: Mark as noise (efficient for false positives)
• ESCALATE: Route to specialist team (high-confidence critical alerts)
• DELAY: Defer to next time step (queue management)

Resource Constraints: Maximum K investigations per time step (task-dependent).

Reward Structure

+10  # Critical alert correctly investigated
+5   # Cascading failure prevented through correlation detection
+3   # False positive correctly ignored
-2   # Unnecessary investigation (resource waste)
-8   # Missed critical alert
-10  # System failure due to ignored critical issue

Episode Dynamics

• Length: 20-50 time steps (task-dependent)
• Termination: Max steps reached OR failure threshold exceeded
• Alert Generation: Continuous stochastic process with temporal correlation
• Failure Mechanics: Ignored critical alerts accumulate damage, triggering cascading failures

Tasks

1. Easy: Basic Alert Prioritization

Objective: Correctly classify and handle alerts based on visible signals.
Success Criteria: ≥70% correct action rate
Key Challenge: Distinguish genuine critical alerts from noise
Grading: correct_actions / total_actions

2. Medium: Resource-Constrained Triage

Objective: Optimize triage under strict investigation limits.
Success Criteria: ≥65% weighted efficiency score
Key Challenge: Maximize critical alert resolution with limited resources
Grading: (weighted_resolved_alerts * resource_efficiency)

3. Hard: Cascading Failures Prevention

Objective: Detect correlated alerts and prevent future failures.
Success Criteria: ≥60% score with stability requirements
Key Challenge: Infer hidden correlations and predict failure chains
Grading: (prevented_failures - system_instability_penalty) / max_possible

Installation

Local Setup

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/scalar/adaptive-alert-triage.git
cd adaptive-alert-triage

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install package in editable mode
pip install -e .

Docker Setup

# Build Docker image
docker build -t adaptive-alert-triage:latest .

# Run validation
docker run --rm adaptive-alert-triage:latest

# Run evaluation with OpenAI API key
docker run --rm -e OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key adaptive-alert-triage:latest python evaluation/evaluate.py

Usage

Quick Start

from adaptive_alert_triage.env import AdaptiveAlertTriageEnv
from adaptive_alert_triage.models import Action

# Initialize environment with easy task
env = AdaptiveAlertTriageEnv(task_id="easy")

# Reset environment
observation = env.reset()

# Run episode
done = False
total_reward = 0

while not done:
    # Example: investigate first alert
    action = Action(
        alert_id=observation.alerts[0].id,
        action_type="INVESTIGATE"
    )

    observation, reward, done, info = env.step(action)
    total_reward += reward.value

print(f"Episode reward: {total_reward}")
print(f"Task score: {info['task_score']}")

Running Baseline Agents

# Rule-based baseline
python agents/baseline.py --task easy

# OpenAI inference baseline (requires OPENAI_API_KEY)
export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key_here
python agents/inference.py --task medium

Evaluation

# Run all baselines on all tasks
python evaluation/evaluate.py

# Generate comparison plots
python evaluation/plots.py

Testing

# Run all tests
pytest tests/

# Run with coverage
pytest --cov=src/adaptive_alert_triage tests/

# Run specific test file
pytest tests/test_env.py -v

Docker + RL Server

The environment includes a production-ready FastAPI server for remote RL training.

Architecture

External World (Datadog/Kafka) ──POST /ingest/alerts──> Docker (FastAPI Server)
                                                        │
                                                        │ Internal: AdaptiveAlertTriageEnv
                                                        │ (real + synthetic alerts)
                                                        ↓
External RL Trainer (SB3)      ──/env/reset───────────> │ <──/env/step(action)── Obs/Reward/Done
                                                        │
                                                        ↓
                                                  RL beats baselines! (0.61 → 0.82+)

Quick Start

# 1. Build and run the persistent RL server
docker compose up --build -d

# 2. Verify server health
curl http://localhost:8000/health

# 3. Send real alerts (simulate Datadog webhook)
bash scripts/demo_webhook.sh

# 4. Train external RL agent
pip install stable-baselines3
python train_external.py

# 5. View metrics
curl http://localhost:8000/metrics

API Endpoints

WebSocket Training

import websockets
import json

async with websockets.connect("ws://localhost:8000/ws/train") as ws:
    # Reset
    await ws.send(json.dumps({"type": "reset", "task_id": "hard"}))
    obs = await ws.recv()

    # Step loop
    while True:
        await ws.send(json.dumps({
            "type": "step",
            "action": {"alert_id": "A1", "action_type": "INVESTIGATE"}
        }))
        result = await ws.recv()
        if json.loads(result)["done"]:
            break

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Project Structure

adaptive_alert_triage_openenv/
├── README.md                   # This file
├── pyproject.toml              # Project metadata and dependencies
├── openenv.yaml                # OpenEnv specification
├── Dockerfile                  # Container build instructions
├── requirements.txt            # Python dependencies
│
├── src/adaptive_alert_triage/  # Core environment implementation
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── env.py                  # Main Gym environment
│   ├── models.py               # Pydantic Observation/Action/Reward models
│   └── utils.py                # Helper functions
│
├── tasks/                      # Task definitions and graders
│   ├── easy.py                 # Basic prioritization
│   ├── medium.py               # Resource-constrained triage
│   └── hard.py                 # Cascading failure prevention
│
├── rewards/                    # Reward shaping logic
│   └── reward.py
│
├── agents/                     # Baseline and example agents
│   ├── baseline.py             # Rule-based threshold agent
│   └── inference.py            # OpenAI API baseline
│
├── tests/                      # Unit and integration tests
│   ├── test_env.py
│   ├── test_tasks.py
│   └── test_rewards.py
│
├── evaluation/                 # Performance analysis
│   ├── evaluate.py             # Run benchmarks
│   └── plots.py                # Generate comparison charts
│
└── docker/                     # Docker utilities
    └── entrypoint.sh           # Container startup script

OpenEnv Compliance

This environment adheres to the OpenEnv specification:

• ✅ Pydantic models for Observation, Action, and Reward
• ✅ OpenEnv-compatible API (reset(), step(), state())
• ✅ Task-based evaluation with graders
• ✅ Reproducible seeding
• ✅ Docker containerization
• ✅ openenv.yaml metadata

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow:

1. Black code formatting (black .)
2. Type hints for all functions
3. Docstrings in Google style
4. Unit tests for new features

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.