The Business Case for Chaos Engineering: An ROI Calculator for Testing Application Reliability

"What do we get from intentionally injecting failures into our systems?" Chaos engineering is one of the best ways to proactively test your application reliability, but many leadership teams have never heard of the concept. Engineering teams need to be able to frame a strong business case to explain the value of chaos engineering and reliability testing to budget holders. When there’s a major outage, the value of application reliability becomes immediately clear, but a strong ROI plan can help earn and maintain executive support while your systems are steady. We have just released an interactive ROI calculator that can help SRE teams frame the business value of proactive reliability efforts like chaos engineering. Ensuring Application Resilience with Chaos Engineering Complex software systems are destined to break and fail at some point, especially with all the factors present in modern production environments. When we ask teams about their approach to system reliability, we often hear