Chaos Mesh

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Runs on api, self-hosted, Web.

Chaos Mesh is ranked #4 of 23 in chaos engineering platforms on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan.

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Chaos Mesh Free Open-source, cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform · runs on Kubernetes chaos-mesh.org · 2 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Kubernetes support: Yes
Cloud fault injection: Yes
Network fault injection: Yes
Experiment scheduling: Yes
Deployment model: self_hosted
Blast-radius controls: Yes

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Purpose: Chaos Mesh is an open-source, cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform for simulating faults in development, testing, and production environments.
Fault coverage: It supports Pod, network, DNS, HTTP, I/O, time, stress, kernel, block device, JVM, physical-machine, AWS, Azure, and GCP faults.
Kubernetes integration: Chaos Mesh uses Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinitions and manages experiments through the Kubernetes API.
Experiment orchestration: Schedule, Workflow, and StatusCheck resources support recurring experiments, serial or parallel workflows, and application health checks.
Dashboard: Chaos Dashboard provides web interfaces and an HTTP API for creating, managing, and observing experiments.
Security controls: Role-based access control is enabled by default to restrict dashboard operations.
Privileged component: Chaos Daemon runs as a Kubernetes DaemonSet with privileged permission by default, although this can be disabled.
Grafana integration: The Chaos Mesh Grafana data-source plugin requires Chaos Mesh 2.1 or later and Grafana 10.0 or later, and was tested on Grafana 10.0.3.
Remote clusters: RemoteCluster can install Chaos Mesh components in remote Kubernetes clusters and synchronize experiment status, but the feature is described as being in an early stage.
Supported Kubernetes: Chaos Mesh 2.8 is supported with Kubernetes versions 1.30 through 1.35, while 2.7 is supported with versions 1.26 through 1.28.
Support: Community technical support is available through CNCF Slack in #project-chaos-mesh and GitHub Discussions.
Security fixes: Security issues are fixed as soon as possible and back-ported to the last two releases.
License: Chaos Mesh is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
Installation: The official Helm repository supports Helm 3 and provides a command to install Chaos Mesh into a Kubernetes namespace.
Price from: Free

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Sources

chaos-mesh.org/docs/· checked 1 Oct 2026
github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh· checked 1 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org· checked 1 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/docs/use-grafana-data-source/· checked 1 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/docs/remote-cluster-management/· checked 1 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/supported-releases/· checked 1 Oct 2026
charts.chaos-mesh.org· checked 1 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/docs/basic-features/· checked 2 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/docs/gcp-authentication/· checked 2 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/docs/integrate-chaos-mesh-into-github-a· checked 2 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/docs/production-installation-using-helm· checked 2 Oct 2026
chaos-mesh.org/docs/simulate-pod-chaos-on-kubernetes/· checked 2 Oct 2026