Reliability HubAPI DocsPlatform

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 Hub.

Containers

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

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Fargate

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, )

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Fargate

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, )

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

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

✅

✅

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Fargate

❌

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

✅

✅

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, )

✅

✅

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

✅

✅

minikube

✅

✅

Kubernetes

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

ContainersPhysical and Virtual Hosts

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

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

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

✅

✅

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).

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

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

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

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

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

✅

✅

✅

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

Cloud Providers

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

AWS

AWS EC2

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

Physical and Virtual Hosts

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

Hibernate
Reboot
Start
Stop
Terminate

EC2 Instance

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS ECS on EC2

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

AWS EC2Containers

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

✅

✅

✅

AWS ECS on Fargate

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

Containers

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

✅

✅

✅

AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

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

ContainersKubernetesAWS EC2

AWS ELB (Elastic Load Balancing)

Steadybit supports attacks based on the AWS ALB API:

Return Static Response

ALB

✅

AWS Elasticache

Steadybit supports attacks based on the AWS Elasticache API:

Node Group Failover

Elasticache

✅

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 extension for more details.

Start Experiment Template

FIS

✅

AWS Lambda

Steadybit supports attacks based on the failure injection wrapper failure-lambda:

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

Lambda

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

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

Kafka

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

Broker Reboot

MSK

✅

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

✅

✅

Other AWS Services

Steadybit has cross-services capabilities like simulating a full availability zone outage or partial zone outage via subnets.

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

Azure

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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

ContainersKubernetesAzure Virtual Machines (VMs)

Azure Event Hub

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

Kafka

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

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

Physical and Virtual Hosts

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

Other Azure Services

More Azure services will be added to the Azure extension in the future.

GCP

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

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

ContainersKubernetesGCP Virtual machines (VMs)

GCP Virtual machines (VMs)

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

Physical and Virtual Hosts

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

Reset
Delete
Stop
Suspend

Virtual Machine

✅

✅

✅

✅

Other GCP Services

More GCP services will be added to the GCP extension in the future.

Service Mesh & API Gateway

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

GRPC Abort
HTTP Abort
HTTP Delay

Istio

✅

✅

✅

Kong

❌

✅

❌

Kafka

Steadybit offers comprehensive support for chaos experiments on Kafka infrastructure.

Broker

Limit Connection Creation Rate
Limit IO Thread
Limit Network Threads

Unmanaged Kafka

✅

✅

✅

AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

✅

✅

✅

Azure Event Hub (Kafka)

✅

✅

✅

Consumer

Check Consumer State
Check Topic Lag
Deny Access

Unmanaged Kafka

✅

✅

✅

AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

✅

✅

✅

Azure Event Hub (Kafka)

✅

✅

✅

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)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

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

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Observability

Steadybit supports the following observability-related experiment actions:

Datadog

✅

✅

✅

Dynatrace

✅

✅

✅

Grafana

✅

❌

✅

Instana

✅

✅

❌

New Relic

✅

✅

✅

Prometheus

✅

❌

❌

Splunk

✅

❌

✅

StackState

✅

❌

❌

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?