steadybit

steadybit is a chaos engineering platform designed to help teams proactively test and improve the reliability of their applications and infrastructure. The tool allows you to safely inject controlled failures into your systems to uncover weaknesses before they lead to real outages. Through a visual experiment editor, you can simulate various failure scenarios like network issues, container crashes, cloud service disruptions, and database failures to see how your systems respond under stress.

The platform works by connecting to your existing infrastructure through an open source extension framework that supports popular tools across your tech stack. You can create experiments using drag-and-drop actions that target specific components like Kubernetes pods, AWS EC2 instances, or network configurations. steadybit provides over 150 pre-built actions for common failure scenarios, and you can add custom extensions to address your specific reliability testing needs. The tool helps you validate that your observability systems are working correctly and that your team can effectively respond to incidents.

steadybit is particularly valuable for DevOps and site reliability engineering teams who need to ensure their systems can withstand unexpected failures. It helps organizations build more resilient applications by identifying single points of failure, testing disaster recovery procedures, and validating that redundancy mechanisms work as expected. Teams use steadybit to conduct regular reliability tests as part of their development lifecycle, ensuring that new deployments don't introduce unexpected vulnerabilities.