What Is a Failure Mode?

A failure mode is a category of potential risks faced by cloud applications. Years of failure modes accumulated on Huawei Cloud are preconfigured on the chaos drill platform. The FT-FMEA fault analysis method is used to help you analyze the potential risks of cloud applications.

Failure modes focus on risk assessment of cloud applications. By systematically evaluating the application architecture, dependency relationship, and potential weak points, the system can precisely identify risk scenarios that could lead to service anomalies (such as node failures, network latency, resource exhaustion). Failure modes are the core premise and basis for conducting chaos drills.