Announcing Status Checks to ensure safe Chaos Engineering Scenarios

Gremlin has introduced Status Checks, now called Health Checks, to enhance the safety of Chaos Engineering experiments by ensuring they are only conducted on stable systems. These checks are performed before initiating a scenario to confirm that the system is in a steady state, preventing any experiments if instability is detected. Continuous Status Checks have been enabled for Gremlin's Starter, Pro, and Enterprise customers, assessing system health throughout the experiment and ensuring no additional failures are introduced. These checks can integrate with monitoring services like Datadog, New Relic, or PagerDuty, offering a layer of confidence for automating and scheduling experiments. By adding a Status Check in a scenario, users can define their success criteria, such as HTTP response codes, and evaluate data from these services to ensure system health before and after experiments. This process empowers organizations to safely expand their chaos practices, with Gremlin providing a detailed guide and free trial for those interested in implementing these automated reliability measures.

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