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What is a 'game day' / chaos engineering exercise, and what does it validate that monitoring doesn't?
A deliberate, planned failure injection (killing a replica, simulating a database failover) used to verify that HA mechanisms, alerting, and runbooks actually work as designed — monitoring shows current state but doesn't prove your failover logic or team response process works until it's actually been exercised.
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