Chaos Engineering

Purpose

Find out whether your resilience mechanisms work before an outage tests them for you. Every fallback, retry, and circuit breaker is a hypothesis until it has been exercised under real failure.

When to Use

• Verifying that a documented failover, fallback, or degradation path actually works.
• Before a high-stakes event where the system must hold.
• After adding resilience mechanisms — to confirm they do what you think.
• Building confidence in a system nobody fully understands.

Capabilities

• Hypothesis-driven experiment design.
• Failure injection: latency, errors, resource exhaustion, instance termination, network partition, dependency unavailability.
• Blast-radius control and automatic abort.
• Game-day facilitation.