Chaos Engineering is the practice of proactively introducing faults into your applications or infrastructure and test the resilience of business services. Developers, QA teams, Performance test teams and SREs run chaos experiments to measure the resilience of the systems and find the weaknesses in that process.
Harness Chaos Engineering provides end-to-end tooling to resilience testing via the chaos engineering principles. Enterprises can build highly scalable resilience testing practice with Harness because of the following capabilities:
- Experiments - faults, probes and actions
- ChaosGuard for governance
- Delegates - scalability
- Connectors for integration
- Resilience management - Resilience scores, coverages, weaknesses and mitigation plans
- AI Powered: Recommendations
- MCP Tools for AI Agent communication and simplifying the end user experience
In addition, the Harness platform provides the required enterprise capabilities like RBACs, SSO, logs and auditing making the entire solution scalable and easy to implement.
New Chaos Studio Features
Harness Chaos Engineering now offers an enhanced New Chaos Studio experience with advanced capabilities and enhanced UX. The studio version you see depends on your onboarding date:
- New Chaos Studio: Available for customers onboarded on or after August 21, 2025
- Old Chaos Studio: Available for customers onboarded before August 21, 2025
New Chaos Studio Features
The New Chaos Studio includes these enhanced capabilities:
- Actions: Execute custom operations, delays, and scripts during experiments
- Templates: Reusable fault, probe, and action templates for standardized chaos engineering
- Chaos Hubs Across Different Scopes: Enhanced chaos hub management with flexible scoping options
- Experiment Level Probes: Advanced probing capabilities at the experiment level
- Custom Faults: Create and manage custom fault definitions for specific use cases
- Runtime Variable Support: Dynamic variable handling during experiment execution
- Timeline View: Visual timeline representation of experiment execution and results
If you're an existing customer and want to access the New Chaos Studio features, contact your Harness support representative.
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Get started with Chaos Engineering
Learn about chaos engineering principles, benefits, and how to get started with your first experiments.
Core Concepts
Understand the fundamental concepts of Harness Chaos Engineering.
Quick Start Guide
Run your first chaos experiment in minutes with our comprehensive quickstart guide.
Feature highlights
Chaos Experiments
Create, run, and analyze chaos experiments with comprehensive experiment management.
Chaos Faults
Comprehensive fault library for Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, and infrastructure chaos.
Resilience Probes
Monitor and validate system health during chaos experiments with various probe types.
Guides & Management
Application Maps
Visualize and understand your application topology for targeted chaos experiments.
GameDays
Organize and run collaborative chaos engineering exercises with your team.
Infrastructure Management
Set up and manage chaos infrastructure for Kubernetes and on-premises environments.
Custom Faults
Create custom chaos faults using BYOC, scripts, HTTP calls, and database operations.
On-premises (SMP)
Deploy and manage Harness Chaos Engineering in self-managed platform environments.
Integrations & Advanced
CI/CD Integration
Integrate chaos testing into your CI/CD pipelines for continuous resilience validation.
Performance Testing Tools
Integrate with JMeter, Gatling, K6, and other performance testing tools for comprehensive validation.
Security & Governance
Implement security best practices, RBAC, and governance policies for chaos engineering.
Help and Resources
Troubleshooting Guide
Common issues and solutions for infrastructure, experiments, and platform troubleshooting.
AI Reliability Agent
Leverage AI-powered insights for intelligent experiment recommendations and analysis.
Chaos Engineering Knowledge Base
Comprehensive knowledge base with tutorials, examples, and troubleshooting guides.