Continuous resilience or a chaos engineering platform?
Both ask whether a system keeps working under strain. They apply the strain in different places: we send traffic from outside; a chaos platform breaks things inside.
A specialised tool
A chaos engineering platform
Side by side.
| What is compared | Continuous resilience | A chaos engineering platform |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Sends scheduled, bounded bursts of traffic at a site, from outside | Injects faults inside your systems: stops a server, adds delay, cuts off a dependency |
| What you install | Nothing. You verify the site with one DNS record | Usually agents, or access to your infrastructure |
| What it shows | How the site holds and recovers under load, and whether that changes during the campaign | How the system behaves when a part of it fails |
| Limits you set | A peak user ceiling, a daily time budget, and a circuit breaker that halts a burst | Usually controls on how far a fault may spread, and conditions that stop an experiment |
| Length | Campaigns of 8 hours to 7 days | Experiments you design and run |
| Who it suits | A small team, or a site owner with no reliability team | Engineering teams that run their own infrastructure |
| Price | Included in Business | Often sold to larger companies, without a published price |
Which one?
Choose continuous resilience when
- You want to know whether a site still holds after each change, without touching its servers.
- You have no reliability team.
- You want the result as a report with a trend.
Choose a chaos engineering platform when
- You need to see what happens when a server, a database or a dependency fails.
- You run the infrastructure and can install agents on it.
- You want to rehearse a failover.
Neither is disaster-recovery testing: neither checks your backups or a restore. This page names no company and no product of another company. "Often", "usually" and "some" describe what tools of this kind commonly publish; set the limits of the one you are weighing beside the figures on our pricing page.
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