# asobti/kube-monkey

An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters

Repository: https://github.com/asobti/kube-monkey
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kube-monkey
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: netflix-chaos-monkey, kubernetes, chaos-monkey, go
Last push: 2026-08-12T20:56:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 65, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3556, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": 21, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3071, forks 254 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:41.527139+00:00)

## What it is
kube-monkey is a Kubernetes implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey that randomly deletes pods in a cluster to encourage and validate failure-resilient services. It runs on a configurable schedule on weekdays, building a daily termination schedule for opt-in deployments identified by Kubernetes labels.

## Use cases
- randomly kill pods in kubernetes to test service resilience
- run chaos engineering experiments on a k8s cluster
- validate that deployments survive pod terminations
- schedule daily chaos terminations for opt-in apps
- test high availability of microservices on kubernetes

## When to choose
- you run services on Kubernetes and want Netflix Chaos Monkey-style fault injection
- you want opt-in, label-based chaos scheduling with blacklists and time windows

## When to avoid
- your workloads are not on Kubernetes
- you need chaos testing outside a cluster or for non-containerized systems

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, deployment, container-orchestration
- domain: cloud-computing, microservices
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: chaos-engineering, chaos-monkey, resilience-testing, fault-injection, kubernetes-pods, devops, containers, kubernetes, docker

## Member repositories
- asobti/kube-monkey (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.527139+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 2026-08-30T07:28:00.537484+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/asobti/kube-monkey (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.527139+00:00, sha 17c03cc99191)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.