Statistics for Engineers is very much an evolving topic. This is for once, since we have not yet figured out what the most suitable material for such a topic is, and also because IT operations is a fast moving field where new data sources and analysis methods are being added on.

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This wiki is aimed at gathering relevant information sources, material and datasets for SRE education.

Foundations

• Probability Theory
• Plotting

Applications

Capacity Planning

• The universal scalability law

Service Level Monitoring

• Quantile Analysis

Fault Detection

• How to set good thresholds?
• Anomaly Detection

Performance Monitoring and Debugging

• A/B testing with t-test and Kolmogorov Smirnov

Tools

• Command Line utilities
• Python / R
• Monitoring Products