Test how your application handles an API Gateway outage. Run Gremlin network experiments and reliability tests to validate client-side retries.
Amazon API Gateway sits between your customers and everything you've built, which makes it the one dependency where degradation is visible to everyone at once. There's no partial audience for a gateway problem.
What complicates it is that the gateway gets blamed for failures originating elsewhere. A slow Lambda or a struggling backend surfaces as gateway latency, your clients respond by retrying, and those retries add load to a system already under strain. Mobile clients are especially prone to this, since their retry logic was written once and rarely revisited.
The useful answers live on the client side, and Gremlin lets you test from there. With Gremlin, you can:
- Compare your client timeouts against the gateway's. A latency experiment makes the difference visible, and it's usually not what teams assumed.
- Find out whether retries help or hurt. A blackhole experiment shows what your applications do when the front door stops answering entirely.
- Check that your monitoring beats your customers to it. Disrupt the endpoint and watch which alert fires first, if any.
Your clients decide how a gateway slowdown actually plays out. Testing from their side is the only way to see that decision before your customers make it for you.
Dependencies: Failure Test
Simulate a failed dependency by dropping all network traffic to the dependency.
Dependencies: Latency Test
Recreate poor network conditions by delaying all network traffic to a dependency by 100ms.
TLS/SSL certificate expiration - Dependencies
Check for expiring TLS certificates on your dependencies by advancing the system clock forward one day, one week, and one month. Detect certificates that will expire before they cause outages.
* Testing a dependency doesn't require installing anything on it. Gremlin runs the experiment from the service that calls it, so compatibility depends on that host rather than on the dependency itself. Check our compatibility documentation for supported operating systems and platforms, or get in touch if you don't see yours.
Intelligent Health Checks - AWS
Automatically monitor your AWS services during testing in one-click with Intelligent Health Checks.
AWS integration
Integrate Gremlin with your AWS account for automatic Health Check creation, service discovery, and more.
Using Failure Flags by proxy
Use Failure Flags, Gremlin's application-level fault injection feature, without changing a single line of code.
Installing Gremlin on Amazon ECS
Learn how to install Gremlin on EC2-backed Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) deployments.
Installing Gremlin on AWS - Configuring your VPC
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unique networking requirements that must be implemented for Gremlin to run successfully…
Avoid downtime. Use Gremlin to turn failure into resilience.
Gremlin empowers you to proactively root out failure before it causes downtime. See how you can harness chaos to build resilient systems by requesting a demo of Gremlin.
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