Create CPU attack

POST {{gremlin_api}}/attacks/new

Create a new attack.

Review Gremlin API docs about creating, halting, and listing attacks, examples of creating attacks, and attack parameters that can be included.

Under the request Body tab, we will configure our attack and include the containerId environment variable initialized in the previous request. Additionally we will pass parameters to attack a single core for the duration of 60 seconds.

Under the Tests tab, we will initialize a new environment variable called guid to identify the attack, in order to pass this info to any subsequent requests.

By default, each container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles is unlimited. You can set various constraints to limit a given container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles.

You may need to view the effects of your attack in Grafana, or another preferred monitoring tool.

Request Body

{"command"=>{"type"=>"cpu", "args"=>["-c", "2", "--length", "60"]}, "target"=>{"type"=>"Exact", "containers"=>{"ids"=>["{{containerId}}"]}}}

HEADERS

Key	Datatype	Required	Description
`Authorization`	string		Use a team-level Gremlin API key
`Content-Type`	string

RESPONSES

status: Created

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