February 2023 Summaries

The recently released Steadybit integration into Datadog offers users a comprehensive dashboard and detailed event tracking for chaos-engineering experiments. This integration, now accessible to all Datadog users, provides a quick setup guide and showcases statistics on Steadybit experiments, categorizing them into completed, failed, and errored states. It also enhances visibility for companies by providing an overview of their chaos-engineering activities. Events from these experiments are aggregated as metrics on the dashboard, and individual events can be examined in Datadog's event view, which includes summaries, relevant tags, and links to the Steadybit platform for further exploration of the experiment execution.

Steadybit offers an adaptable platform that allows for creating custom extensions to enhance compatibility with various technologies in software development. These extensions, which can be implemented in any language and are typically packaged as container images, operate via a well-defined HTTP interface and are deployed alongside the agent in your infrastructure. They enable users to introduce custom functionalities such as attacks, checks, and actions by adhering to a structured lifecycle to ensure efficient resource use and system cleanliness. Extensions can also provide artifacts, metrics, and log messages to enrich experiment insights. Various open-source extensions are available, including those for AWS, Kubernetes, Kong, Datadog, Prometheus, and Postman, each offering specific functionalities like instance discovery, state change attacks, and data collection. This modular approach aims to streamline capabilities, reduce unnecessary resource consumption, and facilitate integration with existing systems, with future plans to deliver all Steadybit functionalities as extensions.