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1. Identify your top 5 critical services

2. Choose one of these critical services:

   1. Monitoring & alerting (Datadog & PagerDuty)

   2. Cache (Redis or Memcache)

   3. Payments

3. Whiteboard the service with your team

4. Select the Gremlin Scenario:

   1. Validate Autoscaling

   2. Unavailable Dependency

   3. Host/Container Failure

5. Determine the magnitude: number of servers/length of time

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What is the value of Chaos Engineering?

Find your monitoring gaps, reduce signal to noise
“We’ll get paged if that breaks”, until you don’t.
A false sense of security is worse than nothing.

Validate Upstream & Downstream Dependencies
Validate that each new service can fail independently.
Protect against cascading failures and knock-on effects.

Train your teams
We run fire drills, train firefights, and first responders.
Are you investing in your operations teams?

Get A Good Night’s Sleep
We often can’t get a good night’s sleep due to our pager waking us up in the middle of the night, use Chaos Engineering to reduce incidents and increase time spent sleeping in your bed!

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