Chaos Engineering (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Go, OpenTelemetry) overview

A chaos engineering practice stack that injects controlled failures into Kubernetes-based production and staging environments to validate system resilience. Experiments target pod termination, network partitions, CPU stress, and DNS failures. Prometheus and Grafana monitor system behavior during experiments while OpenTelemetry traces reveal cascading failure paths. Custom Go tooling orchestrates experiment schedules and automatically aborts when safety conditions are breached. Targeted at SRE teams building confidence in system fault tolerance before peak traffic events. The tradeoff is the risk of uncontrolled blast radius and the cultural challenge of convincing stakeholders to break things intentionally.