# The case for Fault Injection testing in Production

DevFeed: [The case for Fault Injection testing in Production](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-case-for-fault-injection-testing-in-production-11719.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/the-case-for-fault-injection-testing-in-production>)

Author: Sam Rossoff

Published: 2024-02-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>)

Tags: [architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architectures.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [components](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/components.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [false-positives](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/false-positives.md>), [gremlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gremlin.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [verification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verification.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why organizations should reconsider running Fault Injection tests in Production as their operational maturity grows. It compares exploratory testing in non-production environments with verification testing and describes how differences in complexity, scale, configuration, hardware, software, and monitoring can make non-production results misleading.

## Source excerpt

Gremlin Principal Engineer Sam Rossoff shows you when you should run Fault Injection tests in non-production and Production environments.