Show HN: Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP)
MdSadiqMd Monday, February 23, 2026
It takes an input video and converts it into H.264/Opus RTP streams that you can blast at your video call systems (WebRTC, SFUs, etc.). It also injects network chaos like packet loss, jitter, and bitrate throttling to see how things break
It scales from 1 to n participants, depending on the compute and memory of the host system Best part? It’s packaged with Nix, so it builds the same everywhere (Linux, macOS, ARM, x86). No dependency hell
It supports both UDP (with a relay chain for Kubernetes) and WebRTC (with containerized TURN servers). Chaos spikes can be distributed evenly, randomly, or front/back-loaded for different test scenarios. To change this, just edit the values in a single config file
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The article describes the AV Chaos Monkey, a tool that helps organizations test the resilience of their microservices architecture by randomly terminating virtual machines running critical services, simulating real-world failures and ensuring proper failover and recovery mechanisms are in place.
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