Chaos Engineering Practices To Increase Confidence And Reliability
Monday,com, Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
Usually, we attempt to keep our staging environment as stable as possible. But sometimes, you can benefit from inserting some chaos into it - to validate your assumptions about the health of your service, to learn about its dependencies, and to check your guardrails. In this post, you will learn how we at monday.com are using Chaos Engineering practices to achieve the same.
While our staging and production environments run on the same infrastructure stack, standard testing cycles often follow the 'happy path'. Network jitters, pod evictions, and latency spikes can happen in any environment, but they don't always happen exactly when we are running our test suites.
Relying on random failures to test resilience is not a strategy. We needed a way to execute managed chaos: deliberately triggering specific failure modes to verify that our applications handle them correctly.