> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.steadybit.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.steadybit.com/use-steadybit/experiments.md).

# Experiments

An experiment describes a chaos engineering scenario to validate your application's reliability. You can add attacks, like network latency and pod crashes, to inject turbulent conditions, and checks or load tests to validate the system's state. [Experiments are designed](/use-steadybit/experiments/design.md) in the drag-and-drop experiment editor. You can also speed up creation by using [experiment templates](/use-steadybit/experiments/design.md#from-template) or the [provided experiments in services](/use-steadybit/services.md#provided-experiments).

Once designed, you can [run the experiment](/use-steadybit/experiments/run.md) directly and see everything in action or use the [scheduler](/use-steadybit/experiments/schedule.md), [API](/integrate-with-steadybit/api.md) or [CLI](/integrate-with-steadybit/cli.md) to run the experiment later on.

* [Design](/use-steadybit/experiments/design.md)
* [Run](/use-steadybit/experiments/run.md)
* [Run History](/use-steadybit/experiments/run-history.md)
* [Schedule](/use-steadybit/experiments/schedule.md)
* [Variables](/use-steadybit/experiments/variables.md)
* [Properties](/use-steadybit/experiments/properties.md)
* [Emergency Stop](/use-steadybit/experiments/emergencystop.md)
* [Share](/use-steadybit/experiments/share.md)
* [OpenTelemetry Integration](/use-steadybit/experiments/opentelemetry-integration.md)