Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of cloud computing and communications, and provide a data analysis method and device, for use in resolving the problems of low work efficiency and high probability of errors and omissions in the process that a system administrator analyzes and sets associations between configuration object pairs. The specific solution comprises: obtaining a first configuration file of a first checked entity and a second configuration file of a second checked entity; determining the associativity between the name of an obtained first configuration object and the name of an obtained second configuration object, and determining the associativity between a parameter of the obtained first configuration object and a parameter of the obtained second configuration object; determining the association between the first configuration object and the second configuration object; and storing the association between the first configuration object and the second configuration object when it is determined that the associativity between the name of the first configuration object and the name of the second configuration object and the associativity between the parameter of the first configuration object and the parameter of the second configuration object meet a present condition. The embodiments of the present invention are used in a data analysis process.