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Recipe

Chaos Engineering

Inject controlled failure into your stack so you discover cracks before your users do. Meridian orchestrates fault injection across your services with safety rails built in.

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Latency injection

Add artificial delay to any endpoint and observe how upstream callers degrade under pressure.

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Connection drops

Terminate TCP sessions mid-flight and verify retry logic, idempotency, and circuit breaker thresholds.

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Process kills

SIGKILL a random pod during peak traffic and confirm your orchestrator restores capacity within the SLO window.

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Blast radius

Every experiment runs inside a scoped blast radius. Meridian auto-halts when error budgets breach.

Getting started

  1. 1Define a steady-state hypothesis — what does “normal” look like for your service?
  2. 2Pick a fault type and set the blast radius to a single availability zone.
  3. 3Run the experiment, observe metrics, and abort automatically if the hypothesis fails.