Gremlin

Enterprise reliability management platform that uses chaos engineering to find and fix failures before they cause downtime.

Services Developer Tools & Reliability Engineering
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Covina, CA HQ
51-200 company size
2016 founded

What is Gremlin?

Gremlin is an enterprise reliability management and resilience testing platform that helps engineering teams proactively find and fix reliability risks before they cause downtime. Using chaos engineering principles, Gremlin lets teams safely inject failures — like CPU spikes, network latency, DNS outages, and server shutdowns — into their systems to validate that applications, infrastructure, and processes can handle real-world disruptions. Trusted by companies like JP Morgan Chase, Target, Walmart, Mailchimp, and Charter Communications, Gremlin helps reduce downtime, improve resilience, and protect revenue. Founded in 2016 by Kolton Andrus (former Netflix and Amazon chaos engineer) and Matthew Fornaciari, Gremlin has raised approximately $28 million from Index Ventures, Amplify Partners, and Redpoint Ventures.

Mission & values

Help engineering teams proactively manage reliability at scale — reduce downtime, improve resilience, and protect revenue by finding failures before customers do.

Leadership

K

Kolton Andrus

Co-Founder & CEO

Former chaos engineer at Netflix and Amazon. Co-founded Gremlin in 2016 to bring enterprise-grade chaos engineering and reliability management to every engineering team.

M

Matthew Fornaciari

Co-Founder & CTO

Co-founded Gremlin in 2016 to build the platform that makes resilience testing safe, simple, and accessible for enterprise engineering teams.

Funding

StageSeries B
Investors
Index Ventures Amplify Partners Redpoint Ventures

Company information

Frequently asked questions

What is Gremlin?
Gremlin is an enterprise reliability management platform. It lets engineering teams safely inject failures into their systems — like CPU spikes, network latency, and server shutdowns — to proactively find and fix reliability risks before they cause downtime.
What is chaos engineering?
Chaos engineering is the practice of intentionally introducing controlled failures into systems to test resilience and identify weaknesses before they cause real outages.
Who uses Gremlin?
Enterprise engineering teams at companies like JP Morgan Chase, Target, Walmart, Mailchimp, and Charter Communications use Gremlin to improve system resilience.
What types of failures can Gremlin simulate?
Gremlin can simulate CPU spikes, memory pressure, disk I/O, network latency, packet loss, DNS outages, server shutdowns, process kills, time travel, and more.
Is Gremlin safe to use in production?
Yes. Gremlin is designed for safe production use with built-in safeguards like blast radius controls, automatic rollback, and halt mechanisms.

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