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chaosd

Linux · Self-hosted · API

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chaosd is ranked #14 of 23 in chaos engineering platforms on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.

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Chaosd Free Apache-2.0 licensed; Linux binary download; requires glibc v2.17 or later github.com · 7 Oct 2026

Purpose: Chaosd is a Chaos Engineering tool for injecting and recovering faults in physical machine environments.
Fault types: It supports process, network, CPU or memory pressure, disk, and host faults.
Work modes: Chaosd can run as a command-line tool or as a background service controlled through HTTP requests.
Deployment: Chaosd is downloaded and deployed separately from Chaos Mesh.
Supported environment: The documented operating environment requires glibc version 2.17 or later.
Download: The documented binary download is a Linux amd64 tarball, with stable versioned and latest unstable downloads described.
Integration: Chaos Mesh PhysicalMachineChaos experiments require Chaosd deployed in service mode on the physical or virtual machines targeted for fault injection.
Security: The PhysicalMachineChaos guide shows Chaosd configured with TLS certificates and says running the service without generated certificates is not recommended for cluster security.
Privileges: Network experiments using tc or iptables require Chaosd commands to run with sudo or root privileges.
Prerequisites: The repository lists tc, ipset, and iptables as deployment prerequisites, and lists stress-ng and byteman as additional requirements when building from source.
Recovery: Chaosd supports searching for experiments and recovering experiments by their UIDs.
License: The GitHub repository identifies its license as Apache-2.0.
Price from: Free

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