# chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh

A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.

Repository: https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chaos-mesh
Homepage: https://chaos-mesh.org
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: chaos, chaos-engineering, chaos-testing, kubernetes, operator, golang, site-reliability-engineering, fault-injection, cncf, cloud-native, chaos-mesh, chaos-experiments, microservices
Last push: 2026-08-26T09:11:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2556, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 15, "gap_med": 72, "n_releases_24m": 12}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7858, forks 1029 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:07.708875+00:00)

## What it is
Chaos Mesh is an open-source, cloud-native chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes that injects controlled faults (pod, network, DNS, HTTP, I/O, time, stress, kernel, JVM, and cloud provider faults) via Kubernetes custom resources. It includes a web dashboard, a workflow engine for serial/parallel experiment orchestration, and multi-cluster experiment dispatch.

## Use cases
- inject pod failures and network latency into kubernetes workloads to test resilience
- run chaos experiments in production to find reliability weaknesses
- orchestrate serial and parallel fault injection workflows with health checks
- simulate disk io, dns, and http faults in a kubernetes cluster
- validate microservices fault tolerance before major releases
- manage chaos experiments across multiple kubernetes clusters from one dashboard

## When to choose
- you run workloads on Kubernetes and want Kubernetes-native chaos experiments via CRDs and RBAC
- you need broad fault coverage including network, io, kernel, JVM, and cloud provider faults
- you want a web dashboard and workflow engine for scheduling and orchestrating experiments
- you need a mature CNCF incubating project with production usage at large companies

## When to avoid
- your systems run outside Kubernetes or on bare physical machines only
- you need simple load or performance testing rather than fault injection
- you cannot grant cluster-level permissions or run privileged daemons in your cluster

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: testing, monitoring, workflow-automation, container-orchestration, deployment
- domain: cloud-computing, testing, microservices
- platform: cloud, self-hosted, go
- tags: chaos-engineering, fault-injection, kubernetes-operator, cncf, site-reliability-engineering, resilience-testing, web-dashboard, devops, containers, kubernetes, docker

## Member repositories
- chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:07.708875+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:33:47.012106+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:07.708875+00:00, sha 737cba423cee)
  - homepage: https://chaos-mesh.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.279861+00:00, sha ff28bca0574f)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.289126+00:00, sha 902bbf43813c)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/docs/next (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.291044+00:00, sha e2e77832baec)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/docs/2.7.3 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.292739+00:00, sha 316b916daeba)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/docs/2.6.7 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.294383+00:00, sha 80c125fdf5dc)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/docs/production-installation-using-helm (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.297960+00:00, sha bad2fa75d90d)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/docs/simulate-pod-chaos-on-kubernetes (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.299694+00:00, sha 51b2fcfe1368)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/docs/create-chaos-mesh-workflow (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.301305+00:00, sha 6dbe8c861cd6)
  - site_page: https://chaos-mesh.org/supported-releases (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:25.296124+00:00, sha 208d2f139033)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.