Where it fits
- Onboarding — get new sysadmins and SREs comfortable with on-call before they hold the pager.
- Upskilling — give junior engineers reps on real incidents without risking production.
- Interview screening — see how candidates actually debug a live system, not just how they describe it.
- Team practice — run friendly competition on the global leaderboard and compare resilience.
What your engineers practise
The same skills a real on-call shift demands: incident response under SLA pressure, Linux troubleshooting in a real terminal, and automating fixes at scale with Ansible and Terraform. Everything runs in the browser, so a teammate is one link away from their first incident.
Why simulated beats slideware
Runbooks and onboarding decks describe incidents; they don't create the muscle memory of working one. Because the Chaos Engine breaks things on its own and the SLA is always ticking, every session is real practice — the cheapest possible place for your team to make their mistakes.