a6-plugin-fault-injection

To inject latency delays into APISIX requests for resiliency testing, configure the fault-injection plugin to add configurable request delays based on specified percentages. This simulates network latency to validate how your application handles timeout conditions.

Yes, you can abort HTTP requests conditionally in APISIX by applying fault injection logic based on request headers, query parameters, or Nginx variables. This allows targeting specific HTTP aborts with configurable status codes.

Fault injection in chaos engineering is the practice of simulating service failures to test system resiliency. With APISIX, it works by configuring a plugin to intercept requests and inject configured delays or HTTP aborts using conditional logic.

You simulate a 503 HTTP abort for a percentage of API traffic by configuring the APISIX fault-injection plugin with an abort configuration. Set the percentage to 50% and specify 503 as the returned status code to test application failure handling.

Yes, APISIX fault injection supports targeting specific users or IP addresses by using sophisticated conditional logic. You can apply faults based on request variables, allowing you to simulate failures for specific traffic segments.