Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#1

Post by bennetthi » Sun, Dec 07, 2014, 10:58 PM UTC

The Chaos Monkey idea is amazing, but I haven't heard of many people using it besides Netflix.

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#2

Post by mtmail » Sun, Dec 07, 2014, 11:23 PM UTC

Chaos Monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy

introduction: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#3

Post by bennetthi » Sun, Dec 07, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

mtmail wrote: post #2

Chaos Monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy introduction: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...

Yes, but that doesn't answer the question, who is actually using it.

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#4

Post by mtmail » Sun, Dec 07, 2014, 11:59 PM UTC

bennetthi wrote: post #3

mtmail wrote: post #2

Chaos Monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy introduction: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...

Yes, but that doesn't answer the question, who is actually using it.

Sure. I didn't claim it does. I added links so the next person doesn't have to guess too long what Code Monkey stands for. Did you email the https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/simianarmy-users email list?

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#5

Post by hacknat » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 12:33 AM UTC

Forget Chaos Monkey, who's using Chaos Kong? That's what I want to know ;)

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#6

Post by bennetthi » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 1:46 AM UTC

mtmail wrote: post #4

bennetthi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but that doesn't answer the question, who is actually using it.

Sure. I didn't claim it does. I added links so the next person doesn't have to guess too long what Code Monkey stands for. Did you email the https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/simianarmy-users email list?

I hadn't, so I just did. Thanks for the suggestion. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/simianarmy-users/59r...

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#7

Post by romanhn » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 2:00 AM UTC

Chaos Monkey is great, but it may be more pragmatic to start by injecting failures manually, rather than through an automated process. We do this with Failure Fridays at PagerDuty - https://blog.pagerduty.com/2013/11/failure-friday-at-pagerdu....

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#8

Post by bennetthi » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 2:43 AM UTC

romanhn wrote: post #7

Chaos Monkey is great, but it may be more pragmatic to start by injecting failures manually, rather than through an automated process. We do this with Failure Fridays at PagerDuty - https://blog.pagerduty.com/2013/11/failure-friday-at-pagerdu... .

Really interesting approach. Thanks for the resource.

Re: Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?

#9

Post by bob917 » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 2:51 AM UTC

I use Chaos Monkey 3 times a day.