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# Learning Objectives
Today we are going to learn the following topics:

- What Chaos Engineering is, what chaos experiments are, and how running experiments helps your modernization strategy.
- What Gremlin is, and the benefits of using Gremlin.
- How to use Chaos Engineering to improve your DevOps practice, including tuning monitoring and alerting, setting SLAs and SLOs, and meeting the reliability and operational excellence recommendations of the Well-Architected Framework (WAF).
- How to communicate the value of Gremlin and Chaos Engineering to your boss, your teammates, and to others in your organization.


# Workshop Structure

This workshop is broken into the sections list below.  Estimated time for completing the workshop is 1.5-2.5 hours.

- **Prerequisites** ***(5 minutes)*** Provision a Cloud9 instance and validate
- **Setup** ***(20 minutes)*** Install necessary tooling to complete the lab
- **Experiment 1** ***(25 minutes)*** Run a CPU experiment, observe the impact, and implement fixes
- **Experiment 2** ***(15 minutes)*** Run a blackhole experiment and make observations
- **Automate Experiments** ***(25 minutes)*** Learn how to use the Gremlin REST API, SDK, and Status Checks