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Chaos Monkey

Infra & Ops På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

Netflix tool that randomly kills production instances to force the team to build systems that tolerate node failures.

Launched 2011. The philosophy: if your servers die during work hours with the team on hand, that's much better than at 3 AM on a Sunday. Part of the "Simian Army" — Latency Monkey (injects delay), Conformity Monkey (kills non-conformant instances), Chaos Gorilla (takes out a whole AZ).

Birthed the field of chaos engineering. Modern tools: Gremlin (proprietary), Chaos Mesh (CNCF), Litmus, AWS Fault Injection Service. Toxiproxy is its network-layer cousin.

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