Test how your application handles an AWS Redshift outage. Run Gremlin network experiments and reliability tests to validate reporting resilience.
Analytics infrastructure rarely gets reliability attention because its failures are not customer-facing. That reasoning holds until an executive dashboard is blank before a board meeting, or a pricing decision gets made from a report that quietly returned partial data. Amazon Redshift sits behind more of those decisions than most teams track.
Gremlin answers several questions about your Redshift integration that your reporting stack can't:
- Does a slow query look different from a failed one? Latency experiments push query times past your BI tool's timeout so you can see what it displays.
- Does your dashboard show stale data as though it were current? Many tools default to the last successful result with no visual indication. Blackhole experiments reveal whether yours does.
- Do scheduled reports fail visibly? Disrupt the endpoint during a scheduled run and check whether anyone is told, or whether the report simply does not arrive.
Analytics failures reach your leadership team long before they reach your monitoring tool. Gremlin closes that gap.
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.
Unreliable Networks - Dependencies
Simulate unreliable network conditions when communicating with dependencies by adding latency to API calls. Test whether your users are affected when dependency response times degrade.
* 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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