Inject Exception

Attack

Injects exception into the function

Targets:

AWS Lambdas

Install now

Inject Exception

Injects exception into the function

Attack

Targets:

AWS Lambdas

Install now

Inject Exception

Attack

Injects exception into the function

Targets:

AWS Lambdas

Install now

Inject Exception

Injects exception into the function

Attack

Targets:

AWS Lambdas

Install now

Go back to list

The Inject Exception step within the experiment editor.

Introduction

This action leverages steadybit/failure-lambda and the AWS Systems Manager API to inject exceptions into AWS Lambdas.

Use Cases

Understand how other (e.g. upstream services, monitoring) behaves when the lambda is returning a failure.

Prerequisites

The AWS Lambda Function to attack must be wrapped with the failure-lambda library.

Please note that multiple parallel failure injections on the same lambda function are not supported.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
Duration	The duration of the attack.	30s
Rate	The rate of invocations to affect. (100 = all request, 50 = half of all requests)	100%
Message	Message of the thrown exception

Statistics

-Stars

Block TCP Connections

Blocks TCP connection to listed host(s)

Attack

AWS Lambdas

Fill Diskspace

Fills tmp diskspace of the function

Attack

AWS Lambdas

Inject Latency

Injects latency into the function.

Attack

AWS Lambdas

Inject Status Code

Returns a fixed status code.

Attack

AWS Lambdas

Start Using Steadybit Today

Get started with Steadybit, and you’ll get access to all of our features to discover the full power of Steadybit. Available for SaaS and on-prem!

Are you unsure where to begin?

No worries, our reliability experts are here to help: book a demo with them!