Harness Chaos vs LitmusChaos

Last updated on Jun 23, 2026

---

LitmusChaos is an open-source CNCF incubation project that provides a comprehensive chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes environments. Harness Chaos Engineering is the enterprise-ready, feature-rich version built on top of LitmusChaos.

Key Relationship

• Harness is the original creator of LitmusChaos which was donated to CNCF and is now hosted as a CNCF incubation project. Harness continues to be the primary sponsor of LitmusChaos.
• Harness Chaos Engineering is built on the LitmusChaos foundation with many additional enterprise features

Why Choose Harness Chaos Engineering?

Harness Chaos Engineering is perfect for:

• Enterprise teams needing advanced governance and security
• Multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments
• Organizations requiring comprehensive platform integrations
• Teams wanting a fully managed SaaS solution with enterprise support
• Large-scale deployments requiring enterprise-grade scalability and performance

Comprehensive Feature Comparison

Category	Feature	LitmusChaos	Harness Chaos Engineering
Chaos Orchestration	Centralized chaos portal	✅	✅
	Resilience probes	✅	✅
	Chaos hubs	Public hub	Enterprise hub
	Prometheus metrics	✅	✅
	Direct ChaosHub launches	✅	✅
	YAML-based experiments	✅	✅
	Parallel fault execution	✅	✅
	UI experiment controls	❌	✅
	Event-driven chaos	✅	✅ (via webhooks)
	Ready-to-use templates	❌	✅
	Experiment halt capability	❌	✅
	BYOC support	✅	✅
	UI tagging for targets	❌	✅
	Cross-cluster experiments	❌	✅
Deployment & Agents	SaaS deployment	❌	✅
	Self-managed platform	✅	✅
	Kubernetes native agent	✅	✅
	Linux native agent	❌	✅
	Windows native agent	❌	✅
	Scope-based isolation	✅	✅
Advanced Management	UI CRUD operations	✅	✅
	Multi-cluster experiments	❌	✅ (pipelines)
	Parallel experiments	❌	✅ (pipelines)
	Out-of-box experiments	❌	✅
	Chaos experiment templates	✅	✅
	Experiment scheduling	✅	✅
	Advanced scheduling (cron)	✅	✅
	Pipelines	❌	✅
	Resilience score	✅	✅
	Experiment analytics	✅	✅
	Advanced analytics	❌	✅
	Chaos experiment comparison	❌	✅
	ChaosHub export	❌	✅
	Direct hub scheduling	❌	✅
	ChaosGuard governance	❌	✅
Authentication & Authorization	Username authentication	✅	✅
	LDAP provider	❌	✅
	SAML provider	❌	✅
	OAuth providers	❌	✅
	Role-based access control	✅	✅
	Okta provisioning (SCIM)	❌	✅
	Azure AD provisioning	❌	✅
	OneLogin provisioning	❌	✅
	Multiple projects	❌	✅
	Multiple organizations	❌	✅
Security Features	Two-factor authentication	❌	✅
	Kubernetes secrets	✅	✅
	External secret managers	✅	✅
	Built-in RBAC roles	Basic	✅
	Custom RBAC roles	❌	✅
	Audit trail (2-year retention)	❌	✅
	Integrated secrets management	❌	✅
	IP allowlist management	❌	✅
Discovery & Recommendations	Auto-discover Kubernetes services	❌	✅
	Auto-create experiments	❌	✅
	Service map visualization	❌	✅
	Manual experiment recommendations	❌	✅
	Traffic-based recommendations	❌	✅
	Resilience recommendations	❌	✅
Governance Controls	ChaosHub RBACs	✅	✅
	Infrastructure RBACs	✅	✅
	Experiment CRUD RBACs	✅	✅
	Target-specific RBACs	❌	✅
	Fault-specific RBACs	❌	✅
	User-specific RBACs	❌	✅
	Time-window RBACs	❌	✅
	ServiceAccount RBACs	❌	✅
Platform Integrations	Harness CD integration	❌	✅
	Terraform provider	❌	✅
APM Integrations	Prometheus probe	✅	✅
	Datadog probe	❌	✅
	Dynatrace probe	❌	✅
	Splunk Observability probe	❌	✅
	AppDynamics probe	❌	✅

Comprehensive Fault Coverage Comparison

Category	Fault Type/Service	LitmusChaos	Harness Chaos Engineering
Kubernetes Pod Faults	Container kill	✅	✅
	Pod delete	✅	✅
	Pod autoscaler	✅	✅
	Disk fill	✅	✅
	Filesystem fill	❌	✅
	Pod CPU hog	✅	✅
	Pod memory hog	✅	✅
	Pod network latency	✅	✅
	Pod network loss	✅	✅
	Pod network corruption	✅	✅
	Pod network duplication	✅	✅
	Pod network partition	✅	✅
	Pod network rate limit	❌	✅
	Pod DNS error	✅	✅
	Pod DNS spoof	✅	✅
	Pod HTTP latency	✅	✅
	Pod HTTP status code	✅	✅
	Pod HTTP modify body	✅	✅
	Pod HTTP modify header	✅	✅
	Pod HTTP reset peer	✅	✅
	Pod API block	❌	✅
	Pod API latency	❌	✅
	Pod API modify body	❌	✅
	Pod API modify header	❌	✅
	Pod API status code	❌	✅
	Pod I/O stress	Partial	✅
	Pod I/O error	❌	✅
	Pod I/O latency	❌	✅
	Pod I/O attribute override	❌	✅
	Pod I/O mistake	❌	✅
	Time chaos	❌	✅
	JVM CPU stress	❌	✅
	JVM method exception	❌	✅
	JVM method latency	❌	✅
	JVM modify return	❌	✅
	JVM trigger GC	❌	✅
	JVM MongoDB faults	❌	✅
	JVM Solace faults	❌	✅
	JVM SQL faults	❌	✅
	Redis cache expire	❌	✅
	Redis cache limit	❌	✅
	Redis cache penetration	✅	✅
Kubernetes Node Faults	Node CPU hog	✅	✅
	Node memory hog	✅	✅
	Node I/O stress	✅	✅
	Node network latency	❌	✅
	Node network loss	❌	✅
	Node restart	✅	✅
	Node drain	✅	✅
	Node taint	✅	✅
	Kubelet service kill	✅	✅
	Kubelet density stress	❌	✅
AWS Cloud Faults	EC2 stop by ID/tag	✅	✅
	EC2 CPU hog	❌	✅
	EC2 memory hog	❌	✅
	EC2 I/O stress	❌	✅
	EC2 network latency	❌	✅
	EC2 network loss	❌	✅
	EC2 process kill	❌	✅
	EC2 DNS chaos	❌	✅
	EC2 HTTP faults	❌	✅
	Windows EC2 faults	❌	✅
	EBS loss by ID/tag	❌	✅
	ECS agent stop	❌	✅
	ECS task stop/scale	❌	✅
	ECS instance stop	❌	✅
	ECS container faults	❌	✅
	ECS Fargate faults	❌	✅
	ECS network restrict	❌	✅
	ECS update limits	❌	✅
	Lambda inject latency	❌	✅
	Lambda status code	❌	✅
	Lambda modify response	❌	✅
	Lambda update memory/timeout	❌	✅
	Lambda delete concurrency	❌	✅
	Lambda event mapping	❌	✅
	Lambda role permission	❌	✅
	RDS instance delete	❌	✅
	RDS instance reboot	❌	✅
	DynamoDB replication pause	❌	✅
	ALB/CLB/NLB AZ down	❌	✅
	AZ blackhole	❌	✅
	VPC route misconfiguration	❌	✅
	Resource access restrict	❌	✅
	SSM chaos by ID/tag	❌	✅
GCP Cloud Faults	VM instance stop	✅	✅
	VM instance stop by label	✅	✅
	VM disk loss	✅	✅
	VM disk loss by label	✅	✅
	VM service kill	❌	✅
	SQL instance failover	❌	✅
Azure Cloud Faults	VM basic operations	✅	✅
	VM resource stress	❌	✅
	Web apps	❌	✅
VMware Infrastructure	VM power operations	✅	✅
	Resource stress	❌	✅
	Network chaos	❌	✅
	Windows-specific	❌	✅
Linux OS Faults	CPU stress	❌	✅
	Memory stress	❌	✅
	Disk fill	❌	✅
	Filesystem fill	❌	✅
	Disk I/O stress	❌	✅
	Network latency	❌	✅
	Network loss	❌	✅
	Network corruption	❌	✅
	Network duplication	❌	✅
	Network rate limit	❌	✅
	Process kill	❌	✅
	Service restart	❌	✅
	DNS error/spoof	❌	✅
	Time chaos	❌	✅
	API faults (block/latency/modify)	❌	✅
	JVM faults	❌	✅
	Redis faults	❌	✅
Windows OS Faults	All Linux equivalents	❌	✅
SSH-based Faults	Remote system chaos	❌	✅
Cloud Foundry Faults	CF application faults	❌	✅
Kube-Resilience Faults	Advanced K8s scenarios	❌	✅
Load Testing	K6 load generation	❌	✅
	Locust load generation	❌	✅