Ready-made scenarios
The scenario panel offers 9 ready-made scenarios. Levels are multiples of a normal day’s busiest moment, so they suit a map of any size. Pick one, then change anything under Set up to make it your own. See scenarios.
| Scenario | Runs for | What it tests |
|---|---|---|
| Normal day | 1 day | A day's rhythm up to today's busiest moment, to check the map copes with room to spare. |
| Black Friday | 1 day | Doors open at midnight to 7 times today's peak, then a whole day at 4 times. |
| Product launch | 6 hours | Five times today's peak within 10 minutes of the announcement, with a long tail after. |
| TV ad or push notification | 1 hour | Twenty times today's peak within 30 seconds, gone again in 5 minutes. |
| Ticket drop | 2 hours | Everyone arrives the minute tickets go on sale: fifty times today's peak. |
| Back after an outage | 30 minutes | Nobody gets through for 5 minutes, then everyone comes back at once, with retries. |
| Steady growth | 28 days | Traffic doubles over four weeks, with each day's rhythm on top. |
| Quiet night | 8 hours | From 10pm to 6am, to see whether auto-scaling scales back in and what sits idle. |
| Region down | 2 hours | The busiest region goes down for half an hour at the day's peak, to see what fails and what takes over. |