Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot
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VisitChaos Monkey for Spring Boot vs Gremlin
What both publish
| Fact | Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot | Gremlin |
|---|---|---|
| Attack types | Documented assaults include latency, exceptions, application termination, memory, and CPU load. | The fault library includes CPU, process-killer, memory, certificate-expiry and GPU experiments. |
| Founded | 2004 | Gremlin says it was founded in 2016 by Kolton Andrus, who previously built fault injection at Amazon. |
| Integrations | The documentation describes using Unleash to control feature toggles and springdoc-openapi to show Chaos Monkey endpoints in Swagger UI. | Documented integrations include AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira and configurable REST webhooks. |
| Intended users | The project is focused on Spring Boot applications and aims to help test application behavior such as fallbacks, network latency, and service failures. | Gremlin describes its users as SRE and platform teams, and says financial services, retail, media, and B2B SaaS companies use the product. |
| Purpose | Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot tests Spring Boot applications by injecting failures during operation. | Gremlin helps engineering teams find failure modes, fix them, and validate reliability before failures become outages. |
Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot plans
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Gremlin plans
- Gremlin 30-day trialFree
- Gremlin Platform trialFree
- Gremlin Reliability Management Platform on AWS Marketplace$45,000 a year
- Gremlin Foresight AIPriced on request
- Fault injection suite (stand-alone)Priced on request
- Professional ServicesPriced on request
Pick Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot if…
This project suits teams testing resilience and operational behavior in Spring Boot applications. It is aimed at users comfortable with self-hosted dependencies, Actuator controls, and planned experiments.
Pick Gremlin if…
Gremlin is aimed at SRE and platform teams, including teams in financial services, retail, media, and B2B SaaS. It also suits teams that need self-hosting rather than SaaS.