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Drop Outgoing Traffic

AttackAttack
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Cause packet loss for outgoing network traffic
Targets:
Windows Hosts
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Drop Outgoing Traffic

Cause packet loss for outgoing network traffic
AttackAttack
Install now

Drop Outgoing Traffic

AttackAttack
New
Beta
Cause packet loss for outgoing network traffic
Targets:
Windows Hosts
Install now

Drop Outgoing Traffic

Cause packet loss for outgoing network traffic
AttackAttack
Install now
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Introduction

Cause packet loss for matching outgoing network traffic.

Prerequisites

The Extension Windows Host needs to be installed on the target system.

Use Cases

  • Understand how your services behave under specific / flaky network conditions

Parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefault
DurationHow long should the traffic be lost?30s
Network LossHow much percentage of traffic should be lost?70
HostnameRestrict to which hosts the traffic is lost
IP AddressRestrict to which IP address the traffic is lost
Port NumberRestrict to which port number the traffic is delayed
Network InterfaceTarget Network Interface which should be attacked

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Windows host losing network connection is detected by Datadog

When a host suddenly loses connection to the network and your system, Datadog should alert about this. Eventually, everything should recover once the network is back again.

Motivation

When you're working in a less volatile system environment, a loss of network can be crucial as there is likely no backup host that will enable faster recovery. Thus, you should check your observability tools to catch this.

Structure

Before blocking a host from the network, we verify that the Datadog monitor is in an ok state Afterward, we block all traffic to and from a host and expect Datadog to alert about the isolated host. Eventually, when the host is online again, we expect Datadog to turn into an OK state again. While experimenting, we create a downtime for the Monitor so that it will not escalate due to the ongoing alert.

Legacy
VM
Host
Windows
Datadog
Datadog monitors
Windows Hosts

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Homepage
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License
MIT
MaintainerSteadybit
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