</a>. In this blogpost, we&rsquo;ll use the example of data center monitoring and alert correlation implemented with Stateful Functions.</p>
<p>Consider a very simplified view of a data center, consisting of many thousands of commodity servers arranged in server racks. Each server rack typically contains up to 40 servers, with a ToR (Top of the Rack) network switch connected to each server. The switches from all the racks connect through a larger switch (<strong>Fig. 1</strong>).</p>
<p>In this datacenter, 