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Circuit Breaker Playground

Simulate a failing dependency and watch a circuit breaker trip open, half-open, and close.

EngineeringBackendReliabilityArchitecture
60%
3 in a row
5 req
Advanced: half-open probes & timed recovery
1 probe
Off (random)
SuccessFailureFast-rejected (circuit open)Half-open probe
Current state
Closed
Requests fast-rejected
20
never touched the dependency
State transitions
13

A simplified model: one healthy probe closes the circuit again, and any single failed probe reopens it instantly.

✓
20 requests were saved from hitting a broken dependency
Once the circuit tripped open, those requests failed instantly instead of waiting on a dependency that was already failing — protecting your own service's latency and thread/connection pool.

Understand Circuit Breaker Playground

What this tool helps you understand

Feed a simulated dependency a failure rate and watch a circuit breaker react in real time — tripping open once thresholds are crossed, testing recovery in half-open state, and closing again — with your own threshold settings driving the behavior.

When to use it

Use Circuit Breaker Playground when engineering, backend, and reliability work raises questions about circuit breaker, fault tolerance, and half-open state and you need a concrete view before making the next move.

How to read the result

Compare the shape and direction of different scenarios. The useful signal is how the result changes when an input changes, rather than one isolated number.

Assumptions and limits

This is a simplified explanatory model, not a load test or production forecast. Real systems can include dependencies, distributions, failures, and feedback loops outside the selected inputs.

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