{"id":39909,"date":"2024-03-01T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/?p=39909"},"modified":"2024-03-01T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:56:19","slug":"microsoft-azure-chaos-studio-advancing-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/microsoft-azure-chaos-studio-advancing-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio: advancing resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft <strong>Azure Chaos Studio<\/strong> helps you measure, understand, and improve your cloud application <strong>resilience<\/strong>. Cloud applications are constantly exposed to various disruptions and failures, such as network latency, storage outages, or even datacenter outages. These incidents can affect the <strong>performance<\/strong>, <strong>availability<\/strong>, and <strong>reliability<\/strong> of your applications, and ultimately impact your business or mission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Azure Chaos Studio<\/strong> is a <strong>fully managed<\/strong> <strong>chaos engineering<\/strong> experimentation platform that lets you inject real-world faults into your application in a controlled manner. By doing so, you can <strong>observe how your application responds to different scenarios<\/strong>, <strong>identify gaps<\/strong>, and <strong>plan mitigations<\/strong> <strong>before your customers are impacted by a problem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is Azure Chaos Studio?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azure Chaos Studio is a service that uses <strong>chaos engineering<\/strong> to help you <strong>measure, understand<\/strong>, and <strong>build application and service resilience<\/strong> to <strong>real-world incidents<\/strong>, such as a region going down or an application failure causing 100% CPU usage on a VM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chaos engineering is a methodology by which you <strong>inject real-world faults<\/strong> into your application to run controlled fault injection experiments. Resilience is the capability of a system to handle and recover from disruptions. Application disruptions can cause errors and failures that can adversely affect your business or mission. Whether you\u2019re developing, migrating, or operating Azure applications, it\u2019s important to <strong>validate and improve your application\u2019s resilience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This video explains the functions of Azure Chaos Studio:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 800px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39909-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-03-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-video.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-03-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-video.mp4\">https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-03-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How does Azure Chaos Studio work?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azure Chaos Studio provides an <strong>easy<\/strong> and <strong>secure<\/strong> way to <strong>get started with chaos engineering<\/strong>. You can use experiment <strong>templates<\/strong> and a <strong>library of faults<\/strong> to disrupt your apps intentionally. You can also integrate load testing into your experiments to simulate real-world customer traffic. You can <strong>run experiments<\/strong> on <strong>your own terms<\/strong>, whether it\u2019s in your <strong>development<\/strong>, <strong>test<\/strong>, or <strong>production<\/strong> environment, with <strong>real or simulated load<\/strong>, or as part of your continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI\/CD) pipeline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azure Chaos Studio supports various resilience validation scenarios that span the service development and operations lifecycle. You can use it to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Reproduce and prevent incidents<\/strong> that affected your application.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare for major events or seasons with <strong>load, scale, performance<\/strong>, and <strong>resilience testing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Run business <strong>continuity<\/strong> and <strong>disaster recovery drills<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Test application <strong>resilience<\/strong> against <strong>region outages<\/strong>, <strong>network<\/strong> <strong>errors<\/strong>, <strong>high-stress events<\/strong>, or <strong>noisy neighbors<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Develop application <strong>performance benchmarks<\/strong> and <strong>plan capacity needs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Migrate services from on-premises<\/strong> or <strong>other cloud environments<\/strong> without compromising resilience.<\/li>\n<li>Build confidence in services built on <strong>cloud-native architectures<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Validate your <strong>live site tooling<\/strong>, observability data, and on-call processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-1.png 359w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-1-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-1-150x78.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What are the benefits of Azure Chaos Studio?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/microsoft-azure-licensing-full-guide\/\">Microsoft Azure<\/a> Chaos Studio is a powerful tool for improving your application resilience and reliability.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Accelerate discovery<\/strong> of hard-to-find problems, from late-stage development through production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Identify gaps<\/strong> and plan mitigations before your customers are impacted by a problem.<\/li>\n<li>Subject your Azure applications to real or simulated faults.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Observe<\/strong> how your applications <strong>respond<\/strong> to <strong>real-world disruptions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Integrate chaos engineering experiments into <strong>any phase of quality validation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Use the same tools as Microsoft engineers to build resilience of cloud services.<\/li>\n<li>Improve the <strong>reliability<\/strong> of your <strong>Azure applications<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azure Chaos Studio is a <strong>fully managed service<\/strong> that takes care of the <strong>complexity<\/strong> and <strong>security<\/strong> of running chaos experiments. You don\u2019t need to manage tools and scripts, and <strong>you can spend more time learning about your application\u2019s resilience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-2.png 383w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-2-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2024\/03\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-28-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Chaos-Studio-advancing-resilience-2-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How to get started with Azure Chaos Studio?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To get started with Azure Chaos Studio, you need an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/microsoft-azure-new-policy-on-unused-subscriptions-blocking-and-deletion\/\">Azure subscription<\/a> and an Azure resource group. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/contact\/\">contact SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT<\/a> to purchase a <strong>Microsoft Azure subscription<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once you have an Azure subscription and a resource group, you can create a Chaos Studio workspace from the Azure portal. A Chaos Studio workspace is a <strong>container for your chaos experiments <\/strong>and <strong>resources<\/strong>. You can create <strong>multiple <\/strong>workspaces for different environments or teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After you create a Chaos Studio workspace, you can start creating and running <strong>chaos experiments<\/strong>. You can choose from a <strong>variety of experiment templates<\/strong> and <strong>faults<\/strong> or create <strong>your own custom experiments<\/strong>. You can also monitor and analyze the results of your experiments from the Chaos Studio dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">More information<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To learn more about how to use <strong>Azure Chaos Studio<\/strong>, you can check out the\u00a0website <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/chaos-studio\/\">https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/chaos-studio\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can also read this article that explains <strong>how Microsoft engineers use Azure Chaos Studio to build resilience of cloud services<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/advancing-microsoft-azure-resilience-with-chaos-studio\/\">https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/advancing-microsoft-azure-resilience-with-chaos-studio\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For our <strong>vendor page<\/strong> of <strong>Microsoft<\/strong>, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/software\/microsoft\/\">https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/software\/microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> for <strong>expert services<\/strong> on your specific Microsoft software and online services requirements and to <strong>request a quote today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After you create a Chaos Studio workspace, you can start creating and running <strong>chaos experiments<\/strong>. You can choose from a <strong>variety of experiment templates<\/strong> and <strong>faults<\/strong> or create <strong>your own custom experiments<\/strong>. You can also monitor and analyze the results of your experiments from the Chaos Studio dashboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio helps you measure, understand, and improve your cloud application resilience. 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