Today as part of the Chaos Day I wanted to investigate why our current Chaos Tests are failing and why our targeting cluster has been broken by them, see the related issue #5688.
TL;DR
We found three new bugs regarding the reprocessing detection and deployment distribution, but still were not able to reproduce the real issue.
Today I had not much time for the chaos day, because of writing Gameday Summary, Incident review, taking part of incidents etc. So enough chaos for one day :)
But I wanted to merge the PR from Peter and test how our brokers behave if they are not gracefully shutdown. I did that on Wednesday (21-10-2020).
In the last weeks I check multiple benchmarks and clusters in incidents. Often I had the feeling that the memory consumption from the gateway is not ideal or that there is a memory leak. I wanted to experiment regarding this memory consumptions. Since we saw in investigating https://github.com/zeebe-io/zeebe/issues/5641 a high memory spike when the gateway was not able to talk to other nodes I suspected that here might be some bugs hiding
Today I wanted to add new chaostoolkit experiment, which we can automate. We already have experiments like restarting followers and leaders for a partition, but in the past what also caused issues was multiple restarts/leader changes in a short period of time. This is the reason why I created #39.
First chaos day since my parental leave 🎉.
Today I wanted to play a bit with ToxiProxy. Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions and ideal to do some chaos on the network.
In order to make our chaos experiments more realistic we have setup a new gke cluster, which is similar to the Camunda Cloud gke cluster. It allows us to test and experiment with Zeebe clusters which have the same configuration as Zeebe clusters in the Camunda cloud.
As part of the chaos day I run the same benchmark we normally run in our gke with our configuration against the Camunda Cloud Zeebe clusters.