Adaptive Real-Time Fraud Detection

Detect.
Monitor.
Retrain.

A fault-tolerant streaming anomaly detection platform built for real-time fraud monitoring — with Kafka, MLflow, drift detection, and adaptive retraining pipelines.

Operational Status

Streaming PipelineActive
Drift MonitoringEnabled
Retraining PipelineOperational
MLflow TrackingConnected
DLQ ReliabilityHealthy

What is RealSignal?

RealSignal is a streaming-first anomaly detection system focused on operational reliability, lifecycle monitoring, and adaptive ML infrastructure — not just model training.

01

Streaming Inference

Kafka-driven real-time transaction processing with online feature engineering and low-latency anomaly detection.

02

Fault Tolerance

Dead Letter Queue handling isolates malformed events and prevents consumer crashes during inference failures.

03

Adaptive Monitoring

PSI-based drift detection continuously monitors changing transaction distributions and model degradation.

Core System Features

Complete ML lifecycle orchestration with full operational observability at every stage of the pipeline.

F1

Online Feature Engineering

Velocity tracking, merchant diversity analysis, and rolling customer transaction statistics.

F2

Explainability Layer

Rule-based anomaly explanations provide interpretable reasoning behind fraud predictions.

F3

MLflow Lifecycle Tracking

Experiment tracking, metric logging, drift reports, and retraining lifecycle management.

F4

Adaptive Retraining

Significant feature drift automatically triggers retraining on updated transaction distributions.

F5

Operational Metrics API

FastAPI endpoints expose health checks, drift reports, and lifecycle observability.

F6

Monitoring Infrastructure

Drift monitoring and evaluation artifacts help identify model degradation over time.

System Architecture

Streaming-first architecture focused on reliability, monitoring, and adaptive retraining workflows.

Ingestion & Processing
Transaction Generator
Kafka Producer
Streaming Consumer
Feature Pipeline
Detection & Lifecycle
Isolation Forest
Drift Detection
Retraining Pipeline
MLflow Tracking

Transaction Analyzer

Simulate transaction behavior and observe real-time anomaly detection with explainability signals.

Suggested Test Inputs

Normal Transaction

Amount: 1500
Velocity: 20
Avg Amount: 4500
Merchant Diversity: 3

Anomaly Transaction

Amount: 90000
Velocity: 20
Avg Amount: 40000
Merchant Diversity: 4

Prediction Result

Model Behavior

Isolation Forest identifies anomalies based on statistical rarity and density patterns learned from training data.

Transactions that fall outside learned feature distributions may be flagged as anomalous even if they appear normal to humans.

Run a transaction analysis to view results.