Chaos monkey scenarios that can be tested for Spring Boot application

Question

I am using chaos monkey implementation of code centric to test a spring boot application which is hosted in a non scaled environment (i.e It is not hosted on cloud). Below are the scenarios that I am testing. Kindly advice if I can test any more scenarios

1. Latency Assault
2. Exception Assault
3. Kill Application Assault
4. Memory Assault

Answer 1

A few that I can think of -

1. Disk space Assault
2. CPU Assault
3. Time/Clock Assault

You can look for more ideas on other platforms such as Gremlin or [Chaos Toolkit]ץ(https://docs.chaostoolkit.org/)

Answer 2

Currently Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot does not support any more assault types besides the ones you listed. Chaos Engineering however features more levels of experiments: People, Processes, Practices, Application (where you can use Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot), Platform and Infrastructure.

Platform could be Kubernetes. Attacks on the platform level can be attacks like removing a node from the cluster and so forth. Infrastructure level features attacks on the host level (fill memory using tools like stress, cause data loss with tools like tc)

Possible attacks can be:

• Device failures
• cpu failures
• database failures
• internet failures (dns, isp, internet routes)
• time bombs (memory leaks, counter wrap round)
• date bombs (leap year, leap second, epoch)
• retry storms, cascading overload, cascading failures

more of these attack types can be found in the excellent presentation of Adrian Cockroft: https://www.youtube.com/embed/cefJd2v037U