# Gremlin

> Gremlin sells enterprise software and services for testing how applications behave when infrastructure, dependencies, or entire regions fail. Its platform combines fault injection, standardized reliability tests, dependency discovery, scoring, and disaster recovery exercises so engineering teams can find and verify fixes before customer outages.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Founders:** Kolton Andrus (Co-founder and CEO), Matthew Fornaciari (Co-founder and former CTO)
- **Products:** Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, Gremlin Fault Injection, Failure Flags, Gremlin Private Edition, Disaster Recovery Testing
- **Notable:** Public launch in 2017 with named early users including Twilio, Expedia, Confluent, and Remind., Gremlin says more than one million chaos experiments and reliability tests have been run on its platform., Gremlin says its product is used by four of the five largest US banks.

## Products & services

- **Gremlin Reliability Management Platform** — Service-level test suites, dependency discovery, detected risks, scores, dashboards, and reporting.
- **Gremlin Fault Injection** — Controlled chaos experiments and scenarios for infrastructure, applications, and serverless systems.
- **Failure Flags** — Application-level fault injection, including serverless testing and a proxy-based no-code option.
- **Gremlin Private Edition** — Self-hosted deployment for customers that require isolated environments.
- **Disaster Recovery Testing** — Coordinated zone, region, and datacenter-scale exercises across multiple services with health checks and reports.
- **Foresight AI** — Early-access supervised agents for risk analysis, recommended fixes, and verification.
- **Professional Services** — Expert-led reliability baselines, peak-readiness campaigns, and ongoing roadmaps.

## Achievements

- Public launch in 2017 with named early users including Twilio, Expedia, Confluent, and Remind.
- Gremlin says more than one million chaos experiments and reliability tests have been run on its platform.
- Gremlin says its product is used by four of the five largest US banks.
- Sephora reports no major issue during its first 2024 holiday season on a new microservices platform after a broader migration and testing program.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Announced proxy-based no-code application fault injection for Failure Flags.
- **2026-02** — Launched Disaster Recovery Testing across multiple services.
- **2025-11** — Announced a Kubernetes reliability integration with Dynatrace.

## Links

- Website: https://www.gremlin.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gremlin-inc.
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/GremlinInc
- GitHub: https://github.com/gremlin
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Gremlin/videos
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gremlininc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gremlininc/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29