DDoS resilience
Prove your limits shed abuse while real users get served.
DDoS Resilience is a one-time Optics add-on that finds out what an attack would do to you, in private. It walks you through a fire drill against a site you own — the traffic comes from your own machine or your build pipeline, not from us — and scores one question: did the abuse get turned away while a real customer kept getting served?
It drills the way abuse does
Sudden floods, connections held open to tie your app up, oversized requests, and traffic aimed squarely at the parts that cost you money. Each one tests a different defence. The traffic comes from your own machine or your build pipeline.
It scores who still got served
A run passes when the abuse gets turned away while a real customer, checked at the very same moment, is still served quickly. Locking everyone out fails too — that is an outage you caused yourself.
You choose the target, and you authorise it
Because the drill runs from your own machine, Optics never sees the target before you hit it and cannot refuse one for you. Aim it only at infrastructure you own, and record written authorisation first when anyone else is involved.
Stay open for business when the traffic turns hostile.
- Walks you through throwing a flood at your own app, in private
- Shows whether real customers kept getting served through it
- A score you can put in front of a customer or an auditor
- Your defences, visible on your dashboard
A scorecard, not a hope
A weighted score per run, protection cards on the monitoring dashboard showing which defences held, and the run history behind them.
Setup
Point the runner at a host you own. Results upload against the project's own key, next to your pentest and load-test runs.
$249
Pay once and DDoS Resilience is unlocked for your whole organization, on top of a Pro or Team plan. Not a subscription, and never priced per run.
Resilience Suite: $619
Pentest, Load Testing and DDoS Resilience in one purchase. 17% off buying them separately, saving $128.
See the suiteWhat is DDoS Resilience in Optics QA?
It is a fire drill for your app. Optics writes the drill — sudden floods, connections held open to tie your app up, requests deliberately chosen to cost you money — and you run it yourself against a site you own. Results come back to your project, where the scoring and grading happen: did your defences turn the abuse away while a real customer kept getting served?
Do the runs come from Optics?
No. The traffic comes from your own machine or your build pipeline, aimed at a site you own, and Optics walks you through it. Nothing hostile ever leaves our infrastructure.
Will it attack my production site?
Only if you point it there, and that choice is yours to make and yours to authorise. Because you run the drill yourself, Optics does not inspect your target and cannot refuse one for you. Pointing this traffic at a host you do not own is an attack whatever the intent — run it only against infrastructure you own, and get written authorisation on file first when anyone else is involved. Most teams rehearse against staging rather than production.
What counts as passing?
Turning the abuse away, not merely staying up. A run passes when the hostile traffic gets refused while a real customer, checked at the very same moment, is still being served quickly. Locking everyone out fails the run too — that is an outage you caused yourself.
Is this a subscription?
No. DDoS Resilience is a one-time $249 purchase that unlocks the capability for your whole organization, on top of a Pro ($69/month) or Team ($249/month) plan.
Where do results show up?
Every run comes back with a score, and your dashboard shows which defences held: whether floods were turned away, whether slow connections were cut off, and whether an attacker could have run up your bill. Runs are kept, so you can see the score move release to release.
Is DDoS Resilience included in the Resilience Suite?
Yes. The Resilience Suite bundles Pentest, Load Testing and DDoS Resilience in one $619 purchase: 17% off buying them separately, saving $128. One purchase unlocks every part of it for your whole organization.