Steadybit vs. Gremlin

Rolling out chaos engineering is easier when you can fully customize your tool to fit your organization. With Steadybit, you can make it your own.

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Why teams go with Steadybit over Gremlin

Steadybit is the only chaos engineering tool that offers open source customization with enterprise-grade features.

Easier to Deploy

Steadybit easily integrates with your tech stack, whether it’s SaaS, On-Prem, air-gapped, multi-cloud, serverless… With one agent per network, deployment is simple.

Fully Customizable

With an open source extension framework, Steadybit enables teams to customize the platform to perfectly fit their systems and use cases. Add your own custom actions!

Get Insights Faster

We provide recommended experiments so you can get value from experiments right away. Try a variety of attacks quickly and safely with our library of ready-to-run templates.

Make Steadybit Your Own with Custom Extensions

Add your own custom extensions, checks, attacks, load tests, & advice.

Need a new integration or want to inject a custom fault? With Gremlin’s closed-source architecture, you would need to submit a feature request and wait.

With Extension Kits, you can build on top of Steadybit to create the perfect solution for your organization. Get the benefits of a in-house tool without the maintenance.

Need inspiration? Use our library of 200+ open source actions and templates anytime.

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Steadybit Lowers the Chaos Engineering Learning Curve

With an intuitive, extensible platform; it’s easier to shift left your testing and build a culture of reliability.

Comparing Steadybit vs. Other Tools

See the exact benefits of reliability testing with Steadybit compared to other tools like Gremlin

Building Your First Experiment

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Running Your First Experiment

View your experiments run in real-time within the Steadybit platform.

Reviewing Reliability Advice

Start making reliability improvements fast by reviewing issues Steadybit flags automatically.

Automating Experiment Workflows

Incorporate experiments into your software development however you want by using the Steadybit API and CLI.

Comparing Steadybit vs. Gremlin

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GETTING STARTED FAST

Automatic Reliability Issue Discovery

Reliability Advice - 15 checks out-of-the-box and add your own custom advice

Reliability Score - 10 health checks out-of-the-box and no customization

Recommended Experiments

Create specific experiments in one-click directly from Advice prompts

Limited, non-specific set of recommended scenarios

Custom Experiment Templates

Users can import 56 open source experiment templates or create their own

Users can use a limited set of recommended scenarios or create their own

PLATFORM FEATURES

Environment Visualization

Landscape Explorer shows systems visually, with customizable grouping and filtering

No visualization for environments and limited grouping and filtering capabilities

Experiment Designer

Timeline-based editor with drag-and-drop actions

Form-based editor with limited customization

Real-time Experiment Runner

Yes, with strong integration for observability tools

Yes, but limited integration with observability tools

Reporting and Analytics

7 pre-built reports on experiment activity & support for custom reports

3 pre-built reports

SCALABILITY & ARCHITECTURE

Customization Options

Add custom extensions, attacks, checks, load tests, and advice with our open source kits

Very limited customization options

Agent Deployment

Install one agent per network boundary

Install one agents in each host separately, which requires time-intensive configuration

Open Source Extensibility

Kits to create extensions, targets, actions, events, advice, & templates

No extension framework

On-Premises Deployment

Industry-leading enterprise support with full feature parity since 2019

Announced support in 2025, untested product offering and team support

Predictable Pricing

Our plans are designed so there are no surprise charges as you are rolling out chaos engineering across your organization.

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Open Source Integrations

Sometimes your organization may need proprietary or niche solutions. Leverage our extension kits to gain flexibility and make Steadybit your own.

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"With Steadybit, we identified issues and took corrective measures, improving our overall system resilience. The efficiency of finding these weak spots has vastly increased with Steadybit, and the time to deliver a solution has significantly decreased. We're moving closer to achieving our target of 99.99% uptime."

Krishna Palati

Director of Software Engineering
“Steadybit makes it easy to inject faults and really test our system reliability. Their team delivered a new Kafka extension for us that has unlocked new testing possibilities. They are a supportive partner that has made introducing the platforms to new teams easy.”

Jan Rundshagen

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"Steadybit's efficiency enabled us to simulate and anticipate incidents, fostering proactive problem-solving across our teams."

Antoine Choimet

Site Reliability Engineer

Steadybit delivers a better enterprise experience

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Support for On-Premises

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Monitoring and Load Testing

Query targets to create the exact experiment you want

When you install our agent on your network, Steadybit will automatically discover any potential experiment targets and pull in related metadata from your environment. With our intuitive query language, you can easily explore targets and view them in an interactive visualization with groups and filters.

Gremlin doesn’t provide a interactive visualization of your systems. There are limited options for selecting targets for experiments, and no ability to add custom attributes.

Years of experience supporting complex On-Prem deployments

Steadybit has always supported both SaaS and On-Prem deployments with full feature parity from Day 1. Our team has helped enterprise customers deploy and update Steadybit On-Prem for years.

Gremlin has recently announced On-Prem support for the first time as of January 2025. As with any new re-architected product offering, customers will likely encounter unexpected challenges and deployment complications.

Bidirectional integrations with popular observability tools

Monitoring and observability tools are key for seeing how your systems perform. Steadybit has tight integrations with tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Instana, and more. While you watch your experiment run, you’ll be able to see in real-time whether your monitoring tool raises an alert.

With Gremlin, there is support for some monitoring tools but the integrations are limited. For example, you can’t see if alerts are triggered while you watch your experiment run.

Faster Deployment and an Open Source Framework

Gremlin is a closed-sourced tool that requires an agent to be installed on each host. Steadybit is a hybrid-source platform that only requires one agent per network boundary. That means more flexibility and less setup time for your team.

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