Steadybit

What do you like best about the product?

What really made Steadybit stand out during our proof of value was its open and extensible model. The fact that extensions are open source, that we can contribute back, and that we can build our own custom extensions was a decisive factor for us. Other vendors were largely on par in terms of features, pricing, and overall experience, but Steadybit’s openness aligned much better with how we work as an engineering organization.

From a UI standpoint, Steadybit also felt the most mature compared to other vendors we evaluated. The interface is well thought out, clear, and focused on enabling engineers to get things done quickly, without unnecessary friction or visual noise.

From the very first meetings, the Steadybit team was also very much down to business. We were clear that this was a technical evaluation and that we were not interested in polished sales decks or flashy presentations. We wanted to see what the product could actually do and get straight to the point, and they delivered. The focus was consistently on real capabilities, hands-on evaluation, and practical use cases.

From a day-to-day perspective, the platform is easy to use and integrates very naturally with Kubernetes. Creating and running experiments is straightforward, and the safety mechanisms make it suitable even for teams that are still building confidence in chaos engineering.

Customer support is another major strength. The Steadybit team is highly responsive, technically strong, and genuinely invested in our success. Questions, edge cases, and feedback are handled quickly, usually through direct conversations rather than slow back-and-forths.

What do you dislike about the product?

If I had to point out a downside, it would be that we’ve pushed the platform to its limits due to the size and complexity of our Kubernetes clusters. This is less a fundamental issue and more a natural result of operating at enterprise scale.

Beyond that, there are a few minor nitpicks here and there, but nothing blocking. In practice, most of these are resolved quickly through discussion with the Steadybit team, which makes them far less painful than they could otherwise be.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Steadybit, we didn’t have a reliable way to test, reproduce, or safely troubleshoot failure scenarios that we had experienced in production. Post-incident learning was largely theoretical, and validating assumptions around resilience was difficult.

Steadybit gives us a structured, safe, and repeatable way to experiment with failures and validate system behavior. Even though we are currently running it in pre-production, we are already seeing strong engagement from teams and growing confidence in chaos engineering as a practice. People are eager to use it because they can clearly see the value.

As we prepare to roll it out to production, Steadybit is helping us move from reactive incident handling to proactive reliability engineering, which is a significant shift for an organization of our size.

What do you like best about the product?

I like super fast support and commitment from the steadybit team.

What do you dislike about the product?

They can make their product even more friendly for not so technical people.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Steadybit platform has enabled us to take a more proactive approach to testing, which has strengthened the resilience of our ecosystem and increased our confidence in the reliability of our services.

What do you like best about the product?

My experience with Steadybit has been genuinely impressive from day one. The installation was smooth and effortless—we were able to run experiments straight away, which was a huge relief after the challenges we faced with other tools. What really stood out, though, was the team behind it. They were incredibly responsive, always willing to jump on a call at short notice, and consistently supportive throughout the entire process. It felt like they genuinely cared about helping us succeed.

Using the platform itself has been a pleasure. Steadybit discovers everything accurately, and the way you select targets and build experiments is so intuitive that it removes all the usual friction. The reporting is simple, clear, and easy to work with, and the variety of attacks—especially around network behaviour—gave us exactly the flexibility we needed.

Overall, Steadybit felt reliable, modern, and backed by a team that goes above and beyond. It’s a tool I’d happily recommend because it not only works well, but it also makes the whole chaos engineering journey feel far smoother and more enjoyable.

What do you dislike about the product?

I genuinely think Steadybit is the most complete chaos engineering tool on the market. From the moment we started using it, everything just worked—the installation was smooth, the UI is intuitive, and the experiment flow feels thoughtfully designed. Their team has been incredibly supportive and responsive, often jumping on calls at short notice and really partnering with us throughout the process.

What I appreciate most is how comprehensive the platform is: accurate discovery, easy target selection, clear reporting, and a wide range of powerful attacks, especially on the network side. It covers everything we need without the friction we’ve experienced elsewhere.

Overall, Steadybit doesn't just offer features—it delivers a full, polished experience that makes chaos engineering both effective and enjoyable.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Steadybit is solving three big problems for us:

Visibility & Targeting Complexity
Before Steadybit, discovering the right services, nodes, and dependencies for chaos tests was time-consuming and often incomplete. Steadybit accurately discovers everything and makes target selection effortless.
Benefit: I can design meaningful experiments much faster, with confidence that I’m hitting the right components.

Operational Friction Around Chaos Testing
Other tools created blockers—installation issues, manual setup, confusing selectors, unclear reporting. Steadybit removes that friction completely.
Benefit: Chaos experiments go from a stressful, time-heavy process to something smooth and repeatable, which means I can focus on learning from failures rather than fighting the tooling.

Realistic Fault Injection for Modern Distributed Systems
Steadybit offers a richer and more practical library of attacks—especially on the network layer—which maps perfectly to the types of failures we actually care about in production.
Benefit: We can run experiments that reflect real failure scenarios, helping us build confidence in our systems’ resilience.

What do you like best about the product?

Number of Attacks and features
API
UI design and ease of use
The reactivity of the customer support
Easy to implement within our kubernetes architecture

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing to dislike, the memory footprint was a bit high but it has been taken care of with the new golang architecture.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simulating outages to train our incident response. Discover protactively weaknesses while experimenting.