Know Every Way Your System Can Fail
A structured architecture review that surfaces hidden failure modes, maps single points of failure, and produces a ranked remediation roadmap — before your users discover the gaps.
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A resilience assessment is the essential first step before any chaos engineering programme. Without a structured map of your failure modes, chaos experiments are guesswork — you may test the wrong things while genuine single points of failure remain invisible. Our assessment applies a proven failure taxonomy across every layer of your stack: compute, networking, data, dependencies, and operational processes.
We combine architecture review with monitoring gap analysis to answer the question your on-call engineers already know to ask: “what would we miss if X failed at 2am?” The output is a ranked SPOF map and remediation roadmap that engineering leads can take directly into sprint planning. Every finding is linked to a specific chaos experiment, so the assessment feeds directly into a Chaos Engineering Sprint if you choose to continue.
Most teams discover two to four times more failure modes than they expected. That is not a failure of your engineering — it is the nature of distributed systems. The goal is to surface those modes in a structured review, not in a production incident.
Engagement Phases
Architecture Ingestion
We review your architecture diagrams, runbooks, incident history, and monitoring configuration. We map all service dependencies, data flows, and external integrations to build a complete failure-mode inventory.
SPOF Analysis & Gap Assessment
We apply a custom failure taxonomy to score each component on blast radius, likelihood, and detection coverage. We cross-reference monitoring alerts against failure scenarios to identify blind spots.
Findings & Roadmap Delivery
We present ranked findings with severity scores, estimated MTTR impact, and a phased remediation roadmap. Each finding links to a specific chaos experiment we recommend to validate the fix.
Deliverables
Before & After
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| SPOFs identified | 2 known | 15 mapped |
| Monitoring coverage | 40% | 92% gap-closed roadmap |
| Recovery procedures documented | 20% | 100% with owners |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do you need production access to run the assessment?
No. The Resilience Assessment is a document-and-interview review. We work from architecture diagrams, runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and a 90-minute technical interview with your engineering leads. Read-only access to monitoring is helpful but not required.
How is this different from a general architecture review?
We focus exclusively on failure modes — not scalability, cost, or feature design. Every finding is mapped to a specific failure scenario with a blast-radius estimate and a recommended chaos experiment to validate the fix. The output is an actionable chaos backlog, not a generic best-practices list.
What if we have very little documentation?
That is common and is itself a finding. We reconstruct the architecture through interviews and by reviewing code, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring configs. Lack of documentation typically surfaces 30–50% more failure modes than reviewed from docs alone.
Know Your Blast Radius
Book a free 30-minute resilience scope call with our chaos engineers. We review your architecture, identify your highest-risk failure modes, and recommend the experiments that will give you the most signal.
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