ToxiProxy

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An open-source TCP proxy for network testing.

A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing.

Features

• A testing framework that simulates network conditions
• Simulates faulty network connections in CI/development environments to test for SPOFs
• Developed by Shopify and in use since 2014
• Consists of a TCP proxy written in Go and clients for various languages that talk to the proxy over HTTP
  • ruby, Go, Python, .NET, PHP, Node, Java, Haskell, Rust, Elixir

Examples

Delay all MySQL responses by 1 second

Toxiproxy[:mysql_master].downstream(:latency, latency: 1000).apply do
ㅤShop.first # this takes at least 1s
end

Take down all Redis instances

Toxiproxy[/redis/].down do
ㅤShop.first # this will throw an exception
end

See also

• TCP

Favorite site

• Github - toxiproxy