Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Recommended Experiments for Production Resilience in Harness Chaos Engineering | Harness Blog

This guide covers battle-tested chaos experiments for Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and GCP to help you validate production resilience before real failures happen. Start with low blast radius experiments (pod-level) and gradually progress to higher impact scenarios (node/zone failures), always defining clear hypotheses and using probes to measure results. Building reliable distributed systems isn't just about writing good code. It's about understanding how your systems behave when things go wrong.

Chaos Engineering Training: Zonal, Regional Failures and SSL/TLS Certificates Expiration

Learn how to test your system's resilience against critical infrastructure failures. This tutorial demonstrates how to simulate zonal and regional outages to validate your high availability setup, plus how to test SSL/TLS certificate expiration scenarios. Essential for ensuring your applications can handle real-world failure conditions and maintain uptime during certificate-related issues.

Chaos Engineering Training: Chaos Hub, Experiment Templates, Import as Local Copy and Reference

Learn how to leverage Chaos Hub in Harness Chaos Engineering to accelerate your resilience testing. This tutorial covers browsing the Chaos Hub for pre-built experiments, understanding experiment templates, and two key workflows: importing experiments as local copies for customization or referencing them directly from the hub. Perfect for teams looking to quickly implement chaos experiments without building from scratch.

How to test application resiliency by simulating the Cloudflare December 2025 outage

This fall and winter have had their share of major outages (including AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare), and December was no exception. On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a 25-minute outage that served responses with HTTP 500 errors to about 28% of HTTP traffic served by Cloudflare. Since Cloudflare handles an average of 81 million HTTP requests per second, this represents a substantial chunk of internet traffic, including LinkedIn, Zoom, and Downdetector.