Cato Network Stress Test Policy

Cato lets you perform controlled, high-volume network stress tests against your environment without disrupting other customers. To protect the shared Cato Cloud, you must request approval before conducting such tests.

The Cato Cloud is a multi-tenant platform with resources shared across all customers. To avoid impacting other accounts and customers, you must receive approval from Cato before performing a network stress test. The results of a network stress test help you validate capacity planning, performance, and resilience.

A network stress test generates large volumes of legitimate traffic to a specific, intended target in your environment. Common use cases include:

A stress test is not a DDoS test. Packet floods, amplification/reflection attacks, or attempts to overwhelm infrastructure are prohibited.

Every customer planning to conduct any kind of network stress test must coordinate this via the Support team at least 30 days before the test. In addition, provide the following details before actually running the tests, to ensure no impact to Cato's service we provide to our customers, nor to avoid violating the terms of use.

Unauthorized stress tests are not permitted and may be blocked.