# Seven tests to measure and improve reliability: what matters and how it works

DevFeed: [Seven tests to measure and improve reliability: what matters and how it works](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/seven-tests-to-measure-and-improve-reliability-what-matters-and-how-it-works-11570.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/four-reliability-tests>)

Author: Andre Newman

Published: 2024-10-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

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

Topics: [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [gremlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gremlin.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

This article presents seven reliability tests for cloud-native distributed systems. It explains how testing scalability, redundancy, dependency behavior, network outages, and latency before production can improve resilience, availability, and confidence in system reliability.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to take reliability from a nice-to-have to a standard operating practice within your organization. We'll show you seven easy tests you can use to start building resilient systems.