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Harness Resilience Testing (Chaos Engineering)
Harness Chaos Engineering, now presented as part of Harness Resilience Testing, is a commercial chaos platform built on LitmusChaos with experiment libraries, probes and resilience scoring.
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Introduction
Harness offers chaos engineering as part of its software delivery platform; the product page now presents it under resilience testing, with the message of discovering bugs and resilience weaknesses before users do. Harness’s chaos product is built on LitmusChaos, which Harness acquired through ChaosNative.
It provides a library of fault experiments for Kubernetes, cloud providers, hosts and applications, resilience probes to check steady state, GameDay orchestration, and resilience scores. Experiments can run as steps in Harness pipelines so a deployment can be gated on chaos results.
In the quality loop it brings chaos into release pipelines and production readiness reviews.
Features
- Fault library: Kubernetes, cloud, host and app faults.
- Probes: HTTP, command and metric checks.
- Pipeline integration: Chaos steps in Harness CD.
- GameDays: Planned experiment sessions.
- Resilience scores: Track posture over time.
- Litmus-based: Builds on the open-source project.
Pros
- Pipeline gating: Chaos results can block releases.
Cons
- Harness ecosystem: Best inside the wider Harness platform.
- Quote-based tiers: Essentials and Enterprise need sales contact.
- Branding changes: Product naming has shifted.
Usage and Links (Example)
- Sign up for the Harness free plan.
- Install a chaos infrastructure agent in your cluster.
- Pick an experiment from the library, add probes, and run it.
- Add a chaos step to a deployment pipeline.
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Pricing
Harness lists a Free plan that includes Harness Open Source; Essentials and Enterprise plans are available through sales.
Recommended for?
- Harness CD users adding resilience gates.
- Enterprises wanting supported Litmus.
Conclusion
Harness turns LitmusChaos into a supported, pipeline-integrated product.
Compare it with open-source Litmus if you do not need the platform.
On CheckOps, Harness Resilience Testing (Chaos Engineering) is filed under the Production monitoring & observability and Release & CI gates stages. Related tools listed here include Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, Chaos Toolkit, Gremlin, Steadybit and Toxiproxy. Before standardising on one, compare recent maintenance activity, the pricing model as your usage grows, and the integrations you rely on today. Information on this page was verified against the official website, documentation and repository on 11 November 2026.
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