Chaos Settings
With these properties you can control how chaos monkey operates.
This property allows the Chaos Monkey to run. The default is "true". Note that an enabled Chaos monkey does not mean it is also allowed to terminate instances. It must also have the leashed property set to "false".
simianarmy.chaos.enabled = true
This is effectively a "dryrun" option. If leashed is "true" then it will discover instance groups and select instances for termination based on the configured properties, but it will not be able to terminate any instances. The default value is "true".
simianarmy.chaos.leashed = true
This option is used to enable the on-demand termination of chaos monkey. When it is set to true, the chaos monkey will take on-demand termination requests from the REST API. The default value is "false".
simianarmy.chaos.terminateOndemand.enabled = false
This option is used to enable the mandatory termination of chaos monkey. When it is set to true, the chaos monkey will use a default non-zero probability for instance groups when the groups have been opted in for the last mandatory termination window and there was no terminations in the last mandatory termination window. The default value is "false".
simianarmy.chaos.mandatoryTermination.enabled = false
This option specifies the number of days of the mandatory termination window. This option takes effect only when simianarmy.chaos.mandatoryTermination.enabled is true. If the value is not set or has a non-positive value, no mandatory termination will happen. The simianarmy.chaos.ASG.asgname.lastOptInTimeInMilliseconds value is also used to decide if a mandatory termination is going to be enforced. If there is no lastOptInTimeInMilliseconds for the instance group, no mandatory termination is going to happen.
simianarmy.chaos.mandatoryTermination.windowInDays = 32
This option specifies the default probability of mandatory termination. This option takes effect only when simianarmy.chaos.mandatoryTermination.enabled is true. The default value of this option is 0.5.
simianarmy.chaos.mandatoryTermination.defaultProbability = 0.5
The default instance groups shipped in SimianArmy is ASG (Auto Scaling Groups). This value can be used to change the Opt-In vs Opt-Out behavior. If this is set to true then Chaos Monkey will be configured as Opt-Out, this means that ALL ASG's will be considered for terminations unless explicitly disabled. If this value is set to false then Chaos Monkey will be configured as "Opt-In", so all ASGs will not be considered for terminations unless explicitly enabled. The default is "false".
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.enabled = false
This sets the default probability of termination for all ASGs considered. This is the probability of termination per day. With the default schedule settings above, Chaos Monkey will run 6 times a day (9am to 3pm, hourly). So if an ASG is assigned the default probability of 1.0 then each run the run-probability will be 1.0/6 or .166666. What this means is that Chaos Monkey will draw a random number between 0.0 and 1.0, and f that random number is less then .166666 it will proceed to select an instance from the ASG and terminate it. If you want to guarantee a termination on the first run of the day, you can set the probability to 6.0 (ie 600%), which when divided over all the runs would give you a 1.0 run probability. In practice a 1.0 probability does not guarantee that an instance will be terminated every day, there will be days where there are no terminations. If you want to have less frequent terminations for your ASGs you can lower the probability. Since the monkeys only run 5 days a week (they get the weekends off) you can get a weekly termination with 0.2. If you want a termination every other week, set it to 0.1. Note these are still just probabilities, the actual termination events are still random. With a 0.2 probability the terminations on average will be weekly, there will be times where terminations happen 2 days in a row, then perhaps followed by 2 weeks without any terminations. Note that Chaos Monkey will not attack the same ASG in one day. If the probability is set to 6.0, one termination will happen in the ASG on the first run, then no more in that ASG for the rest of the day.
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.probability = 1.0
This setting allows you to set a value of maximum terminations per calendar day (24 hours) for a specific ASG by name. The number can be a double from 0.001-100.0. 0.001 means that there can be at most 1 termination in 1000 calendar days, 100 means there can be at most 100 terminations in one day. For example, if you want to have at most one termination every week (7 days), you can set this value to 0.143 (approx 1/7). The default value is 1.0 which means at most there is one termination per day.
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.maxTerminationsPerDay = 1.0
This setting allows you to enable or disable a specific ASG by name. For example if the ASG name is "monkey-target" to enable it for consideration set simianarmy.chaos.ASG.monkey-target.enabled = true.
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.<asgname>.enabled = true
This setting allows you to set a probability for a specific ASG by name. For example if the ASG name is "monkey-target" to lower the default probability to weekly set simianarmy.chaos.ASG.monkey-target.probability = 0.2. See the comment above on simianarmy.chaos.ASG.probability for further details.
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.<asgName>.probability = 1.0
Same as simianarmy.chaos.ASG.maxTerminationsPerDay, but setting can be applied to a specific ASG by name.
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.<asgName>.maxTerminationsPerDay = 1.0
This value records the last timestamp when the ASG opted in. This value is used in the mandatory termination scenarios.
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.<asgName>.lastOptInTimeInMilliseconds = 1234567
Set the destination email that the termination notifications will be sent to for a specific ASG's instances
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.<asgName>.ownerEmail = the.owner@email.com
Set the source email that sends the termination notifications
simianarmy.chaos.notification.sourceEmail = from.someone@email.com
Enables ASG specific email notifications about instance terminations. Only terminations of instances within the ASG <asgName> will be notified.
simianarmy.chaos.ASG.<asgName>.notification.enabled = true
Enables email notifications about terminations of instances within all ASGs. Email notifications will be sent to the address specified by the value of the simianarmy.chaos.notification.global.receiverEmail property
simianarmy.chaos.notification.global.enabled = true
The recipient email address for notifications instance terminations in all ASGs
simianarmy.chaos.notification.global.receiverEmail = john.recipient@email.com
Set a prefix applied to the subject of all termination notifications.
Probably want to include a trailing space to separate from start of default text.
simianarmy.chaos.notification.subject.prefix = SubjectPrefix
Set a suffix applied to the subject of all termination notifications.
Probably want to include an escaped space " \ " to separate from end of default text
simianarmy.chaos.notification.subject.suffix = \ SubjectSuffix
Set a prefix applied to the body of all termination notifications.
Probably want to include a trailing space to separate from start of default text
simianarmy.chaos.notification.body.prefix = BodyPrefix
Set a suffix applied to the body of all termination notifications.
Probably want to include an escaped space " \ " to separate from end of default text
simianarmy.chaos.notification.body.suffix = \ BodySuffix
Enable the email subject to be the same as the body, to include terminated instance and group information
simianarmy.chaos.notification.subject.isBody = true