De-Risk Cloud Migrations

To improve reliability and prevent unplanned outages, you need to understand the vulnerabilities in your system from day one.

Gremlin helps you identify these weak areas quickly and accurately by automatically detecting risks in your configurations, testing your systems against known causes of incidents and outages, and providing tooling to perform safe and secure Chaos Engineering experiments to uncover unknown issues.

With Gremlin, teams can take proactive measures by testing throughout the migration process, enhancing system resilience before issues arise, and building software that can better withstand these issues when they do occur.

Without Gremlin, we definitely would have experienced P1 issues down the line.

-Vice President, Top 5 Bank

For observability to be effective in the cloud, both the scope and precision need to be dialed in. Gremlin helps ensure you have a monitoring setup that you can trust when it matters most.

Gremlin helps you validate the completeness and accuracy of your monitoring setup by making sure it captures not just the metrics that are easy to measure, but also those that are crucial for understanding system performance and reliability. Gremlin's fault injection tools allow you to simulate a wide range of fault scenarios, helping you ensure comprehensive and accurate monitoring coverage and fine-tune your SLIs and SLOs.

Additionally, by testing how these simulated faults trigger your monitors, you gain assurance that your system will properly alert you to issues and spot blindspots before they impact users.

Runbooks and disaster recovery plans are essential for timely incident resolution, but testing them is critical, especially when new cloud infrastructure is involved. Use Gremlin's Chaos Engineering and reliability testing tools to simulate a variety of fault scenarios and validate the effectiveness of your runbooks. This ensures that they’re actionable, up-to-date, and will reduce the time to resolution (TTR) during real incidents.\ \ This validation process not only builds confidence in your incident response strategy and improves key availability metrics, but also empowers your team to make data-driven updates to the runbooks and disaster recovery plans, keeping them aligned with your evolving system architecture and business needs.

Migrations are not a one-time event. Your cloud will change over time, and you can ensure continued resilience by standardized reliability testing. It helps root out failures, manage reliability risk, and build the confidence needed for engineering teams to move fast.

Out of the box, Gremlin offers a uniform reliability test suite based on industry best practices and real-world causes of incidents that can be deployed across every service and team. For deeper control and organization-wide standards, customize the test suite or deploy your own based on organization needs, cloud provider best practices like the Well-Architected Framework, or compliance requirements.

Through event-driven automation and advanced scheduling, Gremlin not only fortifies the overall reliability of enterprise operations, but improves efficiencies and reduces manual effort.

Our cloud transformation required a new approach to reliability. With Gremlin, we incorporated reliability testing into our SDLC process, helping us validate code for reliability before going live.

-Anantha Movva

Head of Site Reliability & Quality Engineering at Bank of Montreal

Gremlin’s cloud-native platform helps teams improve reliability by identifying risks before they impact users. It is designed for maximum adaptability, able to operate efficiently across multi-cloud, hybrid, or on-premises architectures.

Gremlin supports all public cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. It runs on Linux, Windows, Kubernetes and other containerized environments, AWS Lambda and other serverless platforms, and, yes, bare metal, too. It integrates with the CI/CD, observability, and performance testing tools you already use so you can incorporate it with your current tooling and workflows.