A data center typically has a large number of machines with different hardware configurations. Multiple applications are executed and software and hardware are constantly updated. To avoid disruption of critical applications, which can cause significant financial loss, system administrators should identify and correct failures as early as possible. However, fault-detection in production data centers often occurs only when applications and services are already unavailable. Among the different causes of late fault-detection are the use of thresholds-only monitoring techniques. The increasing complexity of constantly updating applications makes it difficult to set optimal thresholds for each metric and server. This paper proposes the use of anomaly detection techniques in place of thresholds based techniques. An anomaly is a system behavior that is unusual and significantly different from the previous normal behavior. We have developed an anomaly detection algorithm called Decreased Anomaly Score by Repeated Sequence (DASRS) that analyzes real-time metrics collected from servers in a production data center. DASRS has showed excellent accuracy results, compatible with state-of-the-art algorithms, and reduced processing time and memory consumption. For this reason, DASRS meets the real-time processing requirements of a large volume of data.