# Chaos Mesh

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chaos-mesh/  
**Website:** https://chaos-mesh.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Chaos Mesh is a CNCF graduated cloud-native chaos engineering platform that orchestrates chaos experiments on Kubernetes to test system resilience and reliability. It exposes Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for a wide range of chaos kinds (network, pod, IO, stress, DNS, time, kernel, JVM, HTTP), along with a Chaos Dashboard web UI backed by a REST API for creating, managing, and monitoring chaos experiments and workflows. Chaos Mesh integrates with Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Prometheus, Grafana, and CI/CD pipelines to run experiments safely in staging and production environments.

## Kin Score — 39.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 61.6 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **Chaos Mesh Archives API** — Access archived (completed or deleted) experiments, schedules, and workflows
- **Chaos Mesh Common API** — Utility endpoints for cluster metadata, namespaces, and configuration
- **Chaos Mesh Events API** — Query chaos experiment events and audit logs
- **Chaos Mesh Experiments API** — Create, manage, pause, and delete chaos experiments
- **Chaos Mesh Schedules API** — Create and manage scheduled chaos experiments
- **Chaos Mesh Templates API** — Manage reusable status check templates for workflows
- **Chaos Mesh Workflows API** — Create and manage chaos engineering workflows with multiple steps

## Agentic access (1)

- **Chaos Mesh Agentic Access** — 75 operations · 40 acting

## Security (2)

- **Chaos Mesh Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Chaos Mesh Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Chaos Mesh Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (11)

- **Resilience Testing**
- **Disaster Recovery Drills**
- **SRE Game Days**
- **Canary Validation**
- **Production Reliability Testing**
- **Multi-Region Failover Testing**
- **Performance Bottleneck Discovery**
- **Observability Validation**
- **Continuous Chaos in CI/CD**
- **Microservices Dependency Testing**
- **Database Fault Tolerance Testing**

## Tags

Chaos Engineering, Cloud-Native, CNCF, Fault Injection, Kubernetes, Observability, Open-Source, Reliability, Resilience, Testing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/chaos-mesh/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.