# Observability and incident response need resilience testing

DevFeed: [Observability and incident response need resilience testing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/observability-and-incident-response-need-resilience-testing-11673.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/observability-and-incident-response-need-resilience-testing>)

Author: Gavin Cahill

Published: 2024-06-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>)

Tags: [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains that observability and incident response should be combined with resilience testing to improve application reliability and availability. Resilience tests proactively expose failure risks, simulate problems such as traffic spikes or Availability Zone outages, and use observability metrics to evaluate system behavior and verify repairs.

## Source excerpt

Find out how observability, incident response, and resilience testing work together to help you make your system more reliable, resilient, and available.