Production is down.
Can you fix it?
ProdDown drops you into real broken servers with a live terminal, a ticking clock, and automated grading. Practice the incidents that get people hired — before they happen in production.
↑ This is a real terminal. You investigate, you fix, the platform grades your work.
How It Works
Three things that make ProdDown different
Every other platform gives you multiple choice or guided walkthroughs. We give you a broken machine and a timer.
Real environments
Full root access to a Linux server. Run any command. Edit any file. No guardrails, no hand-holding.
Pressure that trains
A 10-minute clock forces you to triage like production. Speed comes from repetition, not memorization.
Proof of skill
Automated checks validate your fix in real-time. Pass = the service is healthy. No partial credit.
How it works
Four steps from signup to skilled
Pick an incident
Choose from 502 errors, disk full, expired certs, crashed services, and more.
Get dropped in
A container boots in under 2 seconds with a real terminal. You have root.
Investigate & fix
Use curl, vim, systemctl, journalctl — whatever you need. No restrictions.
Get graded
Hit Submit. We run health checks inside the container. Pass or keep going.
Scenario library
Real incidents. Real complexity.
Every scenario is modeled after outages that actually happen in production environments.
502 Bad Gateway
SSL Cert Expired
Disk Full
Service Down
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're hooked.
No credit card required. Upgrade only if you want unlimited labs and advanced scenarios.
Free
Perfect for getting started and trying your first incidents.
- 2 labs per week
- Beginner + Medium difficulty
- Real terminal access
- Leaderboard access
Pro
For engineers serious about on-call readiness and interview prep.
- Unlimited labs
- All difficulty levels
- Hints & solution reveals
- Priority container boot
- Progress analytics
Team
For teams that want to level up together before on-call rotations.
- Up to 10 members
- Everything in Pro
- Team leaderboard
- Manager dashboard
- Custom scenarios
Built for
Whether you're preparing or already on-call
Interview prep
DevOps interviews increasingly test incident response. Practice before the whiteboard.
On-call engineers
Build muscle memory for 3am incidents. Faster MTTR starts with repetition in a safe space.
Teams & bootcamps
Run your team through real scenarios before they inherit the pager. Measure readiness.
Your next production incident shouldn't be your first.
Join engineers who practice incident response like athletes practice their sport. Free to start.