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Gremlin

Chaos engineering platform for reliability testing

Overview

Gremlin provides a platform that helps businesses, especially financial services firms, keep their software reliable and available by running controlled experiments that simulate failures (chaos engineering). The product works by letting teams design and run disruptions in their systems, measure how the software and infrastructure respond, and track changes over time, all through a subscription-based service with different tiers. What sets Gremlin apart is its industry focus on financial services, its emphasis on continuous testing of both applications and infrastructure, and its Enterprise Chaos Engineering Certification (GECEC) program, which trains and certifies professionals in chaos engineering and builds a community around reliability practices. The company’s goal is to reduce the risk of customer-facing outages and performance problems, helping customers meet high availability standards, protect revenue, and improve overall user experience.

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About Gremlin

Simplify's Rating
Why Gremlin is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & AnalyticsEnterprise Software

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$26.8M

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • July 2026 Dynatrace launch expands usage inside already-standardized enterprise observability stacks.
  • April 2026 Carahsoft partnership unlocks public-sector deals where procurement friction usually blocks startups.
  • Failure Flags and Disaster Recovery Testing broaden adoption beyond engineers into compliance and recovery teams.

What critics are saying

  • Dynatrace can bundle native resilience features and compress Gremlin's standalone pricing by 2027.
  • Gremlin's last public funding remains the 2018 Series B, limiting war chest against bigger rivals.
  • Chaos engineering stays niche; if bank renewals slow, Gremlin faces existential enterprise churn by 2027.

What makes Gremlin unique

  • July 2026 Dynatrace app embeds Gremlin reliability scores inside observability workflows.
  • Gremlin still sells enterprise resilience testing across bare metal, on-prem, multi-cloud, and serverless.
  • April 2026 Carahsoft access opens federal procurement through SEWP V, ITES-SW2, NASPO, and OMNIA.

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Funding

Total Funding

$26.8M

Below

Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

$35M
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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

3%
The Register
Oct 8th, 2026
Gremlin uses AI to automate chaos engineering and break distributed systems faster

Gremlin has launched Foresight AI, an add-on service that uses artificial intelligence to automate chaos engineering testing. The tool deliberately breaks software infrastructure to uncover hidden bugs before they appear in production. Founded by former Netflix engineer Kolton Andrus, Gremlin specialises in controlled failure injection for enterprise systems. The new AI service speeds up testing by automating preparatory and post-testing tasks that were previously manual. Foresight AI draws on Gremlin's Failure Atlas, a repository of millions of chaos engineering experiments conducted over the past decade across tens of thousands of systems. This grounds the AI's analysis in real-world data rather than generic internet information. The service determines root causes of induced failures, generates fixes, and can either apply solutions or prepare reports for site reliability engineers to review.

AIJourn
Oct 8th, 2026
Gremlin launches Foresight AI to identify and fix reliability risks.

Gremlin launches Foresight AI to identify and fix reliability risks. Balla 8 October 2026 2 minutes read For those of you who have been following Gremlin since 2017, you know that they have long advocated for engineers to be more proactive about the reliability of their systems. The founder Kolton Andrus cut his teeth at Amazon and Netflix, and did some amazing work to make Chaos Engineering a known practice to software engineers worldwide. The premise of Chaos Engineering is straightforward: by putting your system through some upfront tests, SREs and platform teams alike can find where the system may be brittle, before that crack has the chance to burst open and cause real customer pain. But the reality on the ground is that most businesses do not have the engineering resources of a Netflix or an Amazon; engineering teams seem too busy fighting fires to actually set aside time to do necessary proactive reliability work. But it looks like that's about to change. Gremlin has just made Foresight AI generally available. It's designed to automatically spot potential system failures, recommend fixes, and test whether those fixes actually resolved the risk. Put simply: engineering teams now have little excuse to not practice proactive reliability. As Andrus puts it, this is like being able to go to the gym in your sleep. Who wouldn't want to have healthier and more reliable systems? "AI-driven development means shipping code at 10X velocity; it also means 10x the opportunity for bugs, risks, and failures," said Kolton Andrus, CEO and Founder of Gremlin. "While the rise of AI SRE tools are great for helping teams respond to incidents faster, it's still cleanup after something breaks. Gremlin Foresight AI finds risks proactively, delivers the fix, and verifies the fix worked by rerunning the test. This provides teams with the assurances needed to move confidently." The product draws on Gremlin's Failure Atlas, a collection of more than a decade of data about how online systems fail and recover. Gremlin says this allows Foresight AI to base recommendations on observed failure patterns rather than generic guidance. The system can identify potential weaknesses, propose remediation as a configuration patch or infrastructure-as-code change, and rerun the test that exposed the risk to check whether the fix worked. It also tracks reliability scores across services and teams, which Gremlin says can help organizations measure progress and decide where to invest. Foresight AI follows a beta program that Gremlin says demonstrated the product's ability to detect and address risks before they become incidents. The company describes the tool as an extension of its broader reliability platform, which supports planned experiments, limits their potential impact and automates testing over time. Gremlin was founded by engineers with experience at Amazon and Netflix. Andrus previously worked on uptime for Amazon's retail site and later helped build fault-injection tools at Netflix, following the release of the open-source project Chaos Monkey.

PR Newswire
Oct 7th, 2026
Gremlin launches Foresight AI to proactively detect and fix reliability risks before incidents occur

Gremlin, founded by former Amazon and Netflix engineers, has launched Foresight AI, a tool that identifies and fixes reliability risks before they become incidents. The platform is built on Gremlin's Failure Atlas, which contains over a decade of data on system failures. Foresight AI proactively detects potential weaknesses, recommends specific fixes as configuration patches or infrastructure-as-code changes, and validates each fix by rerunning the originating test. The tool also tracks reliability scores across services and teams to measure improvement. According to CEO Kolton Andrus, AI-driven development means shipping code at 10 times the velocity, which also creates 10 times more opportunities for failures. Foresight AI aims to help engineering teams move quickly whilst maintaining system resilience. The platform is now generally available following a successful beta period.

PR Newswire
Jul 28th, 2026
Gremlin launches native Dynatrace app for resilience testing and reliability scoring

Gremlin has launched a native app for Dynatrace that enables engineering teams to run resilience tests and view reliability scores directly within the observability platform. The app combines observability with reliability testing, allowing teams to test services using existing Dynatrace alerts and metrics as health checks. Teams can run full test suites or specific tests with automated halt conditions, view results cross-referenced against key Dynatrace metrics like response time and failure rate, and integrate Gremlin reliability scores into Dynatrace dashboards. The app supports continuous reliability testing, disaster recovery validation, and risk detection across bare metal, on-premise, multi-cloud, and serverless environments. Gremlin is trusted by global enterprises including four of the five largest US banks. Customers have achieved a 50% reduction in downtime and 90% reduction in disaster recovery testing time. The app is available today in the Dynatrace Hub.

USA News Hour
Jul 28th, 2026
Gremlin launches native app for Dynatrace, adding resilience testing and reliability scoring to the observability platform.

Gremlin launches native app for Dynatrace, adding resilience testing and reliability scoring to the observability platform. New app lets engineering teams run Gremlin resilience tests and surface forward-looking reliability scores directly within Dynatrace using the metrics and alerts they already trust. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Gremlin, the reliability management platform trusted by the world's largest enterprises, today announced the Gremlin app for Dynatrace. The app lets engineering teams run Gremlin resilience tests, see their impact on systems, and track forward-looking reliability scores directly within Dynatrace, extending the world-class observability platform's capabilities so teams can also validate and measure the resilience of every service. An effective reliability practice is built on two complementary disciplines: observability, which gives teams real-time visibility into system performance, and reliability testing, which validates how those systems will respond to failures. The Gremlin app for Dynatrace brings these together into a single workspace, using the Dynatrace metrics and alerts teams already trust as the foundation for proactive reliability testing. With the app, teams can: * Test services within Dynatrace: run a service's full test suite or specific tests using existing Dynatrace alerts and events as health checks and automated halt conditions to stop tests if services move outside defined thresholds. * See results using trusted metrics: every test result is cross-referenced against key Dynatrace metrics, including response time, requests per minute, and failure rate, with a full pass/fail history for each service. * Bring reliability scores into existing dashboards: Gremlin reliability scores, test results, and pass rates appear in Dynatrace dashboards, so forward-looking reliability data joins the view executives and stakeholders already trust. The app builds on Gremlin's existing Dynatrace integration, adding a native user interface and reliability scores within Dynatrace dashboards. It supports continuous reliability testing, disaster recovery validation, risk detection, dependency mapping, and reliability reporting and governance. Gremlin's production safety controls - blast radius management, halt conditions, and automatic rollback - apply throughout, and the app works across bare metal, on-prem, multi-cloud, and serverless environments. "Dynatrace shows teams exactly how their systems are performing," said Kolton Andrus, CEO and Co-founder of Gremlin. "Gremlin takes that same trusted data and uses it to prove how those systems will perform under failure, then turns it into a reliability score teams can track over time.Together, they give teams the full picture: what's happening now, and what will happen when something breaks." "Our customers rely on Dynatrace as their source of truth for the health of their systems," said Philippe Deblois, Global Vice President, Solutions Engineering at Dynatrace. "Bringing Gremlin's best-in-class enterprise reliability testing and scoring into that environment is a natural extension of the value our platform delivers. It gives teams a way to validate resilience and act on forward-looking insight, all powered by the Dynatrace data and alerts they already depend on every day." Gremlin is trusted by global enterprises across financial services, SaaS, retail, and media, including 4 of the 5 largest US banks. Customers using Gremlin have achieved outcomes including a 50% reduction in downtime, a 90% reduction in disaster recovery testing time, and 99.99% availability on critical platforms. The Gremlin app for Dynatrace is available today in the Dynatrace Hub. To learn more or request a demo, visit gremlin.com/demo. About Gremlin Gremlin is the reliability management platform trusted by the world's largest enterprises across financial services, SaaS, retail, and media. Combining failure testing, passive risk detection, and dependency mapping, Gremlin gives engineering teams the predictive data they need to systematically measure, manage, and improve their reliability. Learn more at gremlin.com. Media Contact SOURCE Gremlin Inc. Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with PR Newswire. USA Newshour takes no editorial responsibility for the same. PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases headquartered in New York City.

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