# litmuschaos/litmus

Litmus helps  SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub  (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q

Repository: https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/litmus
Homepage: https://litmuschaos.io
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: chaos-engineering, kubernetes, chaos-experiments, cloud-native, chaoshub, hacktoberfest, cncf, operator-sdk, site-reliability-engineering, golang, chaos-testing, fault-injection, google-summer-of-code, devops, fault-simulation, litmuschaos, reliability-engineering, resilience-testing, k8s, lfx
Last push: 2026-08-25T10:16:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 81, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3458, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 49, "gap_med": 30.5, "n_releases_24m": 21}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5602, forks 892 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:22.897127+00:00)

## What it is
LitmusChaos is an open-source, CNCF-hosted chaos engineering platform for cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure. It provides a ChaosCenter control plane for designing, scheduling, and observing chaos experiments, plus an execution plane of operators and agents that inject faults, with a large library of prebuilt experiments at ChaosHub.

## Use cases
- inject pod and node faults into a kubernetes cluster to test resiliency
- run chaos experiments in CI/CD pipelines before releases
- verify that my application recovers from infrastructure failures
- schedule and monitor chaos workflows from a web UI
- automatically trigger chaos tests on deployment changes via GitOps
- validate SRE steady-state hypotheses with resilience probes

## When to choose
- you run workloads on Kubernetes and want a mature, community-driven chaos engineering platform
- you want prebuilt fault experiments from ChaosHub instead of writing your own
- you need a web UI, GitOps integration, and observability dashboards for chaos testing

## When to avoid
- your systems are not on Kubernetes or cloud-native infrastructure
- you only need simple load or unit testing rather than fault injection
- you cannot grant the cluster permissions chaos operators require

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: testing, monitoring, deployment, workflow-automation, container-orchestration
- domain: cloud-computing, monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, go
- tags: chaos-engineering, fault-injection, resilience-testing, sre, cncf, chaoshub, gitops, kubernetes-operator, mcp-server, devops, containers, kubernetes, docker

## Member repositories
- litmuschaos/litmus (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.897127+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 2026-08-29T17:55:27.609209+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.897127+00:00, sha 3341b2846fef)
  - homepage: https://litmuschaos.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:23.802825+00:00, sha 6225e42f4721)
  - site_page: https://docs.litmuschaos.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:23.812130+00:00, sha 84413c1e046f)
  - site_page: https://docs.litmuschaos.io/docs/getting-started/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:23.813960+00:00, sha 575788e88717)
  - site_page: https://docs.litmuschaos.io/docs/user-guides/observability-set-up (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:23.817573+00:00, sha d678bfafcb3e)
  - site_page: https://docs.litmuschaos.io/docs/concepts/gitops (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:23.819048+00:00, sha f7e79ad72300)
  - site_page: https://docs.litmuschaos.io/docs/user-guides/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:23.820639+00:00, sha 96f6e6ded97b)
  - site_page: https://docs.litmuschaos.io/docs/architecture/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:23.822279+00:00, sha 7b676ad554ce)
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.