What Makes Steadybit Stand Out?
Designed to Make Reliability Easy
Before we dive into specific features, let’s quickly review some of the aspects that set Steadybit apart from other tools.
We strive to make Steadybit the most extensible, safe, and easy-to-use platform for reliability testing and chaos engineering.
Here is a quick summary of how our set of features deliver a best-in-class reliability platform unlike any other.
The Most Flexible Reliability Platform
Industry-Leading On-Premises Support
Unlike other chaos engineering tools, Steadybit has offered SaaS and On-Prem versions at full feature parity since Day 1.
For example, if you have private data centers or need to run experiments in an airgapped environment, Steadybit is easy to deploy and our team has years of experience providing support. With a straightforward container-based setup and Postgres database, you maintain total control over your chaos experiments, ensuring security and compliance in even the most sensitive settings.
If you are running cloud-based systems and a SaaS version of Steadybit makes more sense, we support that approach by default.
Easy Extensibility & Customization
Steadybit has a hybrid architecture which enables the best of both worlds, trusted enterprise features paired with the flexibility of open source customization.
In our Reliability Hub, there are hundreds of open source actions, templates, targets, advice, and extensions that customers can quickly use in the platform. These extensions are essentially integrations with a wide array of technologies and integrations. We also have extension kits that make it easy to build your own. Instead of waiting on another development team to prioritize an integration or new attack, you can build on top of Steadybit to add custom components to perfectly match your systems and use cases.
Automate with API, CLI, and AI Options
There are many options to extend Steadybit capabilities into automated workflows, including an API, CLI, and GitHub Actions. Now with the Steadybit MCP Server, you can also connect Steadybit with LLM workflows to analyze experiments, make recommendations, and aggregate custom reports.
Safe, Controlled Experimentation
Fine-Grained User Permissions
Safety is essential in chaos engineering, and Steadybit places it at the core. Set granular, team-based permissions so each team can run only the appropriate attacks on their designated infrastructure components. Define testing environments within the platform for even greater control.
Emergency Stops & Preflight Webhooks
If an experiment goes worse than expected, you can easily and quickly turn off the experiment with an “emergency stop” that rolls back changes. You can also set up preflight webhooks, or required checks, so you can make sure that the conditions are right for you to run an experiment. With guardrails like this, it’s easy to make sure that experiments are running within the parameters you’ve set.
Chaos Engineering Made Easy
Intuitive Experiment Editor
Our timeline-based, drag-and-drop experiment editor makes it easy to build and run experiments. No scripts required. You can even use our library of experiment templates to test common use cases or technology-specific attacks. Since you can build and customize your experiment quickly, you can focus more on reviewing the results and learning about your systems.
Reporting & Insights
If you’re running chaos experiments, you’ll likely be asked how you are measuring success. With pre-built reports in Steadybit, you can easily see insights and trends on platform usage, the types of experiments running across your organization, and how many issues you have found and fixed. You can also use these reports and audit logs in Steadybit to show compliance with industry standards for operational preparedness like DORA.
Fair Pricing and Best-in-Class Support
As you run new experiments and expand your test coverage, license pricing and support tickets shouldn’t get in the way. Our team has a license model that doesn’t limit how many agents you install, experiments you run, or users you add. It’s designed to make rolling out chaos engineering easy.
We also offer best-in-class customer support. Instead of a layer of customer success reps, we connect our customers directly to our product team and engineers so we can troubleshoot and solve issues and feature requests faster.
Lesson Summary
There are lots of tools and approaches for improving your system reliability. In this lesson, we outlined why teams choose Steadybit and how our unique set of features lead to teams being able to make our platform feel like their own. Next, we’ll start to dive deeper into the Steadybit architecture and put new terms and definitions into practice.
