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Harness Adds 8 New Features to Redefine Resiliency with AI-Powered Chaos Engineering | Harness Blog

Discover how Harness Resilience Testing is redefining resilience with AI-powered automation and next-gen features. Learn about seamless service discovery, tailored chaos experiments, and intelligent safeguards that help teams proactively tackle system weaknesses, scale resilience practices, and minimize downtime.

TL;DR

  • Harness Resilience Testing combines AI-driven automation with DevOps integration to help teams proactively identify system weaknesses before they cause production outages.
  • Eight new features include automated service discovery, AI-generated chaos experiments, and ChaosGuard safeguards that prevent disruption to critical environments.
  • Organizations using chaos engineering practices report fewer incidents and faster recovery times when failures do occur.
  • Features like experiment-level probes, native AWS ECS support, and fault flags enable precise, scalable resilience testing across cloud-native and legacy systems.
  • Automated resilience testing helps teams reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and minimize the business impact of downtime.

Modern systems are complex, distributed, and constantly evolving—creating new risks with every change. Downtime, scaling issues, and unexpected failures aren’t just technical problems; they’re business challenges that impact revenue, customer trust, and compliance. Chaos engineering offers a proactive way to tackle these challenges by simulating failures to improve resilience.

But what if chaos engineering could do more? What if it didn’t just simulate failures but provided actionable insights, AI-driven recommendations, and seamless integrations to help you build truly resilient systems and teams?

With Harness Resilience Testing, that future is now. Combining AI-powered automation with deep ecosystem integration, Harness is redefining how teams approach resilience testing. By simplifying workflows, connecting the dots between changes and failures, and empowering teams to act, we’re transforming uncertainty into predictable reliability.

Why Choose Harness Resilience Testing?

Unlike traditional chaos engineering tools that focus on isolated tests, Harness Resilience Testing integrates directly into your DevOps pipelines and operational workflows, empowering teams with a unified platform to:

  • Proactively identify and fix system weaknesses.
  • Automate resilience testing with AI-driven recommendations.
  • Scale chaos experiments across cloud-native and legacy environments.
  • Minimize downtime, reduce costs, and improve Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).

Your Partner in Resilience

AI is the cornerstone of modern DevOps platforms. Harness Resilience Testing is no different and enables teams to move beyond manual testing and into intelligent, proactive experimentation. Here’s how Harness integrates AI to transform resilience:

  • Tailored Recommendations: AI analyzes your architecture and operational data to suggest the most impactful chaos experiments.
  • Automated Experimentation: From setup to execution, AI reduces complexity and accelerates testing cycles.
  • Actionable Insights: AI provides clear, data-driven next steps to address weaknesses and improve system reliability.
Harness Chaos Engineering dashboard displaying AI Recommendations to create, run, or fix specific chaos experiments
Harness AI Recommendations

Chaos Recommendations Using AI

Leverages AI to analyze systems and suggest optimal experiments, reducing the guesswork and increasing the efficiency of chaos testing.

AI for Chaos Experimentation

Automates the design, execution, and learning cycles of chaos experiments, scaling resilience practices with minimal effort.

Create an Experiment with AI modal in Harness, showing a natural language prompt to delete pods on a Kubernetes cluster
AI creation of experiments
Harness AI Development Assistant (AIDA) generating a chaos experiment workflow from a natural language prompt
AI creation workflows

Key New Features: Building Resilience Smarter

Now GA: Tested and Trusted Features

Service Discovery & Auto-Creation of Chaos Experiments
Automates the discovery of services and generates tailored chaos experiments, ensuring comprehensive resilience coverage without manual setup.

Application map in Harness Chaos Engineering displaying discovered services, a 50% resilience score, and 85% coverage
Application map from service discovery

Chaos Templates in CI/CD Pipelines
Enables teams to integrate chaos experiments directly into their delivery workflows, making resilience testing a seamless part of every release.

Selecting an existing chaos experiment to add as a stage in a Harness CI/CD pipeline
Chaos template in CI/CD pipelines

ChaosGuard for All Platforms
Adds safeguards to ensure chaos experiments are controlled and never disrupt critical production environments.

ChaosGuard Rules dashboard and a Create New Condition window with Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows infrastructure options
ChaosGuard for all infrastructure types

In Beta: Next-Gen Resilience Tools

Experiment-Level Probes and Actions
Allows granular control of chaos experiments, enabling precise targeting and detailed analysis of results. Program actions to take based on results of test.

Harness Chaos Engineering UI showing the Probes & Actions list and configuring an action on an experiment-level probe
Experiment-level probes and actions

Native AWS ECS Agent
Brings chaos engineering natively to AWS ECS environments, empowering cloud-native teams to validate resilience under real-world conditions.

Harness Chaos Engineering Environments screen showing AWS ECS infrastructure connected via the native ECS agent
ECS agent for injecting failure

Fault Flags for Application Chaos
Introduces application-level control for chaos experiments, enabling smarter, more dynamic fault injections.

Enterprise ChaosHub UI showing application chaos faults: func_inject_delay, func_inject_exception, and func_return_value
Application chaos with fault flags

Start Building Resilience Today

While change and chaos are inevitable, resilience can ensure systems recover efficiently. With Harness Resilience Testing, you can turn unpredictability into strength, building systems that adapt, recover, and thrive under pressure. Sign up for a demo today or join our free plan to get started.

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Uma Mukkara
Head of Resilience Testing
Uma Mukkara is Head of Resilience Testing at Harness, where he helps teams improve reliability by safely testing how systems behave during real-world failures through AI Native Chaos Engineering, Load Testing and DR Testing.
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Uma Mukkara
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Matt Schillerstrom
Director of Product Management and Product Marketing
Matt Schillerstrom is a Product Marketing Manager at Harness, specializing in Feature Management, Chaos Engineering, Database DevOps, and AI-native DevOps.
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Matt Schillerstrom
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