Recreating 3 Common Outages with Gremlin Scenarios

In October of 2016, large swathes of the internet were knocked offline. The cause, as we would eventually learn, was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the DNS provider, Dyn. Many of the internet’s most popular sites that relied on Dyn experienced extended downtime, resulting in a significant impact on revenue, engineering velocity, and brand reputation.

Since the Dyn outage, many major services have built-in redundancy around their DNS provider, allowing them to gracefully failover to a backup service should the primary provider become unavailable.

This is just one example of a failure scenario that caused widespread outages. However, there are other more common scenarios that can cause problems.

You'll walk away understanding how Gremlin can be used to recreate complex failure conditions and proactively prepare your systems to withstand them. You’ll also have the opportunity to have your questions answered by our experts during our Q&A segment.