Anomaly Detector API for Real-time Monitoring

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To set up an Anomaly Detector API for real-time monitoring with Pulumi, you would typically use a combination of cloud services and Pulumi resources to collect data, analyze it for anomalies, and take action based on the results. Most cloud providers offer services like Azure's Anomaly Detector, Amazon Kinesis for real-time data streaming, or Google Cloud's Dataflow, which can be used to build an anomaly detection pipeline.

Here's a conceptual overview of what you might build:

1. **Ingest data**: You need a source of real-time data. This could be application logs, system metrics, user activities, or any other time-series data. Services like Amazon Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, or Azure Event Hubs are commonly used for this purpose.

2. **Process data**: Once you have a data stream, you need a way to process it. You can use serverless functions (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions) to process data as it arrives. Alternatively, you might use a managed data processing service like Azure Stream Analytics, AWS Kinesis Analytics, or Google Cloud Dataflow.

3. **Detect anomalies**: This is where an Anomaly Detector API comes into play. You can pipe the processed data into a machine learning service that is trained to detect anomalies in real-time. Azure Anomaly Detector is a service specifically designed for this purpose.

4. **Take action**: Once an anomaly is detected, you might want to alert somebody, store the anomaly for later analysis, or trigger some automated response. This might involve another serverless function, a database, or an orchestration service like AWS Step Functions or Azure Logic Apps.

Now, let's write a Pulumi program that creates a simple pipeline on AWS. This program will create an AWS Kinesis stream to ingest data, an AWS Lambda function to process the data, and we will assume the function contains logic to interact with an Anomaly Detector API (such as invoking Azure's Anomaly Detector through its REST API).

Remember, you'll need to provide your own anomaly detection logic within the Lambda function, and you should work with data scientists or machine learning experts to create a model suited to your specific use case.

Below is a basic Pulumi program that sets up the infrastructure for such a real-time monitoring solution in AWS using Python:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Create an AWS Kinesis stream to ingest real-time data
kinesis_stream = aws.kinesis.Stream("anomalyDetectorStream",
                                    shard_count=1)

# IAM role which the Lambda function will assume
lambda_role = aws.iam.Role("lambdaRole",
                           assume_role_policy="""{
                             "Version": "2012-10-17",
                             "Statement": [{
                               "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
                               "Principal": {
                                 "Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
                               },
                               "Effect": "Allow",
                               "Sid": ""
                             }]
                           }""")

# IAM role policy that allows the Lambda function to log to CloudWatch and read from Kinesis
lambda_policy = aws.iam.RolePolicy("lambdaPolicy",
                                   role=lambda_role.id,
                                   policy=f"""{{
                                     "Version": "2012-10-17",
                                     "Statement": [
                                       {{
                                         "Effect": "Allow",
                                         "Action": "logs:*",
                                         "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
                                       }},
                                       {{
                                         "Effect": "Allow",
                                         "Action": "kinesis:GetRecords",
                                         "Resource": "{kinesis_stream.arn}"
                                       }}
                                     ]
                                   }}""")

# Create a Lambda function to process the Kinesis stream
lambda_function = aws.lambda_.Function("anomalyDetectorFunction",
                                       role=lambda_role.arn,
                                       handler="index.handler",
                                       runtime="python3.8",
                                       code=pulumi.FileArchive("./lambda"))  # path to your zipped lambda code

# Grant the Lambda resource-based permission to read from the stream
lambda_event_source_mapping = aws.lambda_.EventSourceMapping("anomalyDetectorMapping",
                                                            event_source_arn=kinesis_stream.arn,
                                                            function_name=lambda_function.name,
                                                            starting_position="LATEST")

# Export the name of the Kinesis stream
pulumi.export('kinesis_stream_name', kinesis_stream.name)
```

In this program:

- We defined a Kinesis stream with a single shard. In a production environment, you'd likely use more shards to handle a greater volume of data.
- We created an IAM Role and Policy to allow our Lambda function to assume the necessary permissions. Specifically, the policy allows the function to log to CloudWatch and read data from the Kinesis stream.
- We set up a Lambda function and gave it the code to run. You'd replace `./lambda` with the path to your Lambda function's code directory that you would zip and deploy. The provider needs to be configured with your AWS access credentials.
- We created an event source mapping to tell AWS Lambda to invoke our `anomalyDetectorFunction` whenever there is new data in the `anomalyDetectorStream`.

Remember to zip your Lambda function's code and place it in the specified directory before deploying the Pulumi stack. The Lambda function code should contain the logic for calling and interacting with your chosen Anomaly Detector API.

You will also need to configure Pulumi with your