Abstract: A feature selection methodology is disclosed. In a computer-implemented method, components of a computing environment are automatically monitored, and have a feature selection analysis performed thereon. Provided the feature selection analysis determines that features of the components are well defined, a clustering of the features is performed. A constraint based semi supervised process is performed. Provided the feature selection analysis determines that features of the components are well defined, a similarity analysis of the sub-features of the feature is performed. Results of the feature selection methodology are generated.