Chaos Engineering

Kind: activity

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: architecture:chaos-engineering

Severity: contextual

Scope: system, resilience, operations

Canonical: Ontology

The practice of injecting controlled faults into a running system to test a stated hypothesis about how it recovers.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Canary Deployment and before Graceful Shutdown.

Requires

• Observability

Reinforces

• Self-Healing Architecture
• Fault Tolerance

Enables

• Empirical Resilience Verification

Conflicts with

• Untested Failure Assumptions

In tension with

• Production Risk

Tensions

• Chaos Engineering / Production Risk

Violated by

• Untested Failure Assumptions

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Linked from

• What can drift, seen through how it drifts
• Error Handling / Resilience
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety
• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety
• Severity levels
• The resolutions