ChaosBlade
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What both publish
| Fact | ChaosBlade | Gremlin |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2019 | Gremlin says it was founded in 2016 by Kolton Andrus, who previously built fault injection at Amazon. |
| Integrations | ChaosBlade-Box uses Helm for deployment management and integrates Prometheus monitoring. | Documented integrations include AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira and configurable REST webhooks. |
| Intended users | The project describes its goal as helping enterprises improve system availability during cloud-native adoption. | Gremlin describes its users as SRE and platform teams, and says financial services, retail, media, and B2B SaaS companies use the product. |
| Purpose | The project aims to help enterprises address high-availability problems during cloud-native adoption through chaos engineering. | Gremlin helps engineering teams find failure modes, fix them, and validate reliability before failures become outages. |
| Safety controls | ChaosBlade-Box describes manual stopping and automatic stopping through a configured timeout as policies to help ensure drills are resumed. | Gremlin supports blast radius controls and automatic halt and rollback of experiments if issues arise. |
ChaosBlade plans
- ChaosBladeFree
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 ChaosBlade if…
ChaosBlade is aimed at enterprises working on availability concerns during cloud-native adoption. It may suit teams that want to run infrastructure, application or Kubernetes experiments using CLI, HTTP or platform-based methods.
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.