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Azure Chaos Studio

Managed chaos engineering experiments.

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Overview

Chaos Studio injects faults (CPU pressure, VM stop, AKS pod kill, network) into Azure resources via experiments with safety guards.

When to use it

  • Resilience validation
  • Game days
  • Disaster recovery drills

Setup

  1. Enable Chaos Studio.
  2. Onboard target resources.
  3. Author experiment with steps + branches.

How to use

Start
az rest --method post --uri /subscriptions/<id>/resourceGroups/qa-rg/providers/Microsoft.Chaos/experiments/exp1/start?api-version=2023-11-01

QA use cases

  • Kill AKS pods mid-load-test and verify auto-recovery + SLO.