search
Reliability HubAPI DocsPlatform
githubEdit

Compatibility

Steadybit offers a wide variety of fault injections, checks and integrations (called actions for Chaos experiments which are provided by Steadybit's open-source extensions. These actions can be combined in a timeline-based editor to build your chaos engineering experiment.

This page serves you as an overview of the supported technologies. A detailed list is available on the Steadybit Reliability Hubarrow-up-right.

hashtag
Containers

The following capabilities are available when targeting containers, running standalone or in a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes:

hashtag
Network Attacks

Block DNS
Block Traffic
Corrupt Outgoing Packages
Delay Outgoing Traffic
Drop Outgoing Traffic
Limit Outgoing Bandwidth

Docker

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

CRI-O

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

containerd

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Kubernetes

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Red Hat OpenShift

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on EC2

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Fargate

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

❌

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, Autopilot)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Resource Attacks

Fill Disk
Fill Memory
Stress CPU
Stress IO
Stress Memory

Docker

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

CRI-O

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

containerd

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Kubernetes

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Red Hat OpenShift

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on EC2

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Fargate

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, Autopilot)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
State Attacks

Pause Container
Stop Container

Docker

✅

✅

CRI-O

✅

✅

containerd

✅

✅

Kubernetes

✅

✅

Red Hat OpenShift

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on EC2

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Fargate

❌

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, Autopilot)

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

hashtag
Kubernetes

Steadybit's capabilities for containers and physical and virtual hosts also work within Kubernetes clusters:

Containerschevron-rightPhysical and Virtual Hostschevron-right

On top, Steadybit supports attacks based on the Kubernetes API:

hashtag
Attacks

Cause Crash Loop
Delete Pod
Rollout Restart Deployment
Scale Deployment
Scale StatefulSet
Taint Node

Kubernetes

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Red Hat OpenShift

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, Autopilot)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Checks

DaemonSet Pod Count
Deployment Pod Count
Deployment Rollout Status
Node Count
StatefulSet Pod Count

Kubernetes

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Red Hat OpenShift

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, Autopilot)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Other Actions

Display Pod Count Metrics
Display Kubernetes Event Logs

Kubernetes

✅

✅

Red Hat OpenShift

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, Autopilot)

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

hashtag
Physical and Virtual Hosts

The following attacks are available when working with physical hosts and virtual machines (both 64-bit PC and 64-bit ARM architectures).

hashtag
Network Attacks

Block DNS
Block Traffic
Corrupt Outgoing Packages
Delay Outgoing Traffic
Drop Outgoing Traffic
Limit Outgoing Bandwidth

Ubuntu 20.04

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Ubuntu 22.04

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Ubuntu 24.04

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Fedora Latest

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Debian Bookworm

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Debian Bullseye

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Amazon Linux 2

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Amazon Linux 2023

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Windows 11

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Windows Server 2022

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

circle-info

Other .exe, .deb and .rpm-based distributions will mostly likely work, too, but aren't explicitly tested on.

hashtag
Resource Attacks

Fill Disk
Fill Memory
Stress CPU
Stress IO
Stress Memory

Ubuntu 20.04

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Ubuntu 22.04

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Ubuntu 24.04

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Fedora Latest

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Debian Bookworm

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Debian Bullseye

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Amazon Linux 2

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Amazon Linux 2023

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

circle-info

Other .deb and .rpm-based distributions will mostly likely work, too, but aren't explicitly tested on.

hashtag
State Attacks

Shutdown Host
Stop Process
Time Travel

Ubuntu 20.04

✅

✅

✅

Ubuntu 22.04

✅

✅

✅

Ubuntu 24.04

✅

✅

✅

Fedora Latest

✅

✅

✅

Debian Bookworm

✅

✅

✅

Debian Bullseye

✅

✅

✅

Amazon Linux 2

✅

✅

✅

Amazon Linux 2023

✅

✅

✅

circle-info

Other .deb and .rpm-based distributions will mostly likely work, too, but aren't explicitly tested on.

hashtag
Cloud Providers

Steadybit supports fault injection on all major cloud providers and an ever-growing list of managed services.

hashtag
AWS

hashtag
AWS EC2

Steadybit's capabilities for physical and virtual hosts also work for AWS EC2 environments:

Physical and Virtual Hostschevron-right

On top, Steadybit supports attacks based on the AWS EC2 API:

Hibernate
Reboot
Start
Stop
Terminate

EC2 Instance

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
AWS ECS on EC2

Steadybit's capabilities for AWS EC2s, and containers also work for AWS ECS on EC2 environments:

AWS EC2chevron-rightContainerschevron-right

On top, Steadybit provides capabilities based on the AWS ECS API:

Scale Service
Service Event Log
Service Task Count

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on EC2

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
AWS ECS on Fargate

Steadybit's capabilities for containers also work for AWS ECS on Fargate environments:

Containerschevron-right

On top, Steadybit provides capabilities based on the AWS ECS API:

Scale Service
Service Event Log
Service Task Count

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on EC2

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

Steadybit's capabilities for containers, Kubernetes and AWS EC2s also work for AWS EKS environments:

Containerschevron-rightKuberneteschevron-rightAWS EC2chevron-right

hashtag
AWS ELB (Elastic Load Balancing)

Steadybit supports attacks based on the AWS ALB API:

Return Static Response

ALB

✅

hashtag
AWS Elasticache

Steadybit supports attacks based on the AWS Elasticache API:

Node Group Failover

Elasticache

✅

hashtag
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS)

Steadybit integrates with AWS FIS experiment templates, which makes it easy to inject faults into additional managed services. See the AWS extensionarrow-up-right for more details.

Start Experiment Template

FIS

✅

hashtag
AWS Lambda

Steadybit supports attacks based on the failure injection wrapper failure-lambdaarrow-up-right:

Block TCP Connections
Fill Diskspace
Inject Exception
Inject Latency
Inject Status Code

Lambda

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

Steadybit's capabilities for Kafka also work for AWS MSK environments:

Kafkachevron-right

On top, Steadybit provides capabilities based on the AWS MSK API:

Broker Reboot

MSK

✅

hashtag
AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

Steadybit provides capabilities based on the AWS RDS API for RDS clusters and instances.

RDS Clusters

Cluster Failover

RDS Cluster

✅

RDS Instance

Reboot
Stop

RDS Instance

✅

✅

hashtag
Other AWS Services

Steadybit has cross-services capabilities like simulating a full availability zone outagearrow-up-right or partial zone outage via subnetsarrow-up-right.

Additional managed services are covered via AWS FIS, or will be added to Steadybit natively in the future.

hashtag
Azure

hashtag
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Steadybit's capabilities for containers, Kubernetes and Azure VMs also work for Azure AKS environments:

Containerschevron-rightKuberneteschevron-rightAzure Virtual Machines (VMs)chevron-right

hashtag
Azure Event Hub

Steadybit's capabilities for Kafka also work for Azure Event Hub leveraging Kafka-compatibility:

Kafkachevron-right

hashtag
Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

Steadybit's capabilities for physical and virtual hosts also work for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs):

Physical and Virtual Hostschevron-right

On top, Steadybit supports attacks based on the Azure VMs API:

Virtual Machine

Reboot
Delete
Stop
Deallocate

Virtual Machine

✅

✅

✅

✅

Virtual Machine Scale Set Instances

Reboot
Delete
Stop
Deallocate

Scale Set Instance

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Other Azure Services

More Azure services will be added to the Azurearrow-up-right extension in the future.

hashtag
GCP

hashtag
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Steadybit's capabilities for containers, Kubernetes and GCP VMs also work for Google GKE:

Containerschevron-rightKuberneteschevron-rightGCP Virtual machines (VMs)chevron-right

hashtag
GCP Virtual machines (VMs)

Steadybit's capabilities for physical and virtual hosts also work for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs):

Physical and Virtual Hostschevron-right

On top, Steadybit supports attacks based on the GCP VMs API:

Reset
Delete
Stop
Suspend

Virtual Machine

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Other GCP Services

More GCP services will be added to the GCParrow-up-right extension in the future.

hashtag
Service Mesh & API Gateway

Steadybit provides the following fault injections for service meshes and api gateways.

GRPC Abort
HTTP Abort
HTTP Delay

Istio

✅

✅

✅

Kong

❌

✅

❌

hashtag
Kafka

Steadybit offers comprehensive support for chaos experiments on Kafka infrastructure.

hashtag
Broker

Limit Connection Creation Rate
Limit IO Thread
Limit Network Threads

Unmanaged Kafka

✅

✅

✅

AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

✅

✅

✅

Azure Event Hub (Kafka)

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Consumer

Check Consumer State
Check Topic Lag
Deny Access

Unmanaged Kafka

✅

✅

✅

AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

✅

✅

✅

Azure Event Hub (Kafka)

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Topics

Check Partitions
Produce Records
Reduce Message Batch Size
Delete Records
Partition Leader Election

Unmanaged Kafka

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Azure Event Hub (Kafka)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) / Spring Applications

Steadybit supports the following application-level faults for JVM- and Spring-based applications. These don't require any dependency at work at runtime via bytecode manipulation.

Spring Controller Delay
Spring Controller Exception
HTTP Client Delay
HTTP Client Status
Method Delay
Method Exception
JDBC Template Delay
JDBC Template Exception

JVM application

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

hashtag
Observability

Steadybit supports the following observability-related experiment actions:

Check for Alerts

Mute Alerts

Send Events

Datadog

✅

✅

✅

Dynatrace

✅

✅

✅

Grafana

✅

❌

✅

Instana

✅

✅

❌

New Relic

✅

✅

✅

Prometheus

✅

❌

❌

Splunk

✅

❌

✅

StackState

✅

❌

❌

hashtag
Load and API Testing

Steadybit integrates with the following load- and API-testing solutions:

Run Test from Experiment
Run Experiment from Test

Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional

❌

✅

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise

❌

✅

Gatling

✅

✅

JMeter

✅

✅

K6

✅

✅

K6 Cloud

✅

✅

Postman

✅

✅

Custom HTTP Check

✅

✅

Last updated

Was this helpful?