Linux packet loss
Ensure your Linux systems can detect and route around resources that fail health checks. This Scenario gradually increases packet loss to validate health check and load balancer behavior.
Packet Loss
Linux
5 minutes
How this Scenario works
This Scenario gradually increases packet loss on a targeted Linux host, simulating degraded network conditions. This tests whether your health checks detect the degradation and whether your load balancer removes the unhealthy host from rotation.
Why run this Scenario?
- Validate that health check thresholds on your Linux infrastructure are configured to detect packet loss before users are impacted.
- Verify that load balancers remove unhealthy Linux hosts from rotation and redistribute traffic to healthy ones.
- Test that monitoring detects packet loss on Linux hosts and triggers alerts with appropriate urgency.
- Ensure that Linux hosts are returned to service correctly once packet loss resolves.
What to expect when you run it
As packet loss degrades network communications on a Linux host, health checks mark it as unhealthy and the load balancer distributes requests to other healthy hosts.
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