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Kafka traffic simulator for observability and chaos engineering. Version 0.7.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-27.
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Package summary
Kafka traffic simulator for observability and chaos engineering
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Commands and aliases
- khaos
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Project history and usage
khaos is a young Kafka data generator, load-testing, and chaos-engineering CLI. It uses YAML scenarios to generate synthetic traffic, simulate producers and consumers, and exercise Kafka cluster failure modes.
Project history
The upstream changelog records version 0.1.0 on December 23, 2025 as the initial release, with configurable producers and consumers, YAML scenarios, correlated event flows, Faker-backed data generation, Docker Compose integration, authentication support, live stats, prebuilt scenarios, and CLI commands for running, simulating, validating, listing, and managing clusters.
Rapid follow-up releases in December 2025 added Avro, Protobuf, Schema Registry support, scenario categories, custom scenario files, Docker support, and internal refactoring. Version 0.7.0 on January 2, 2026 added consumer failure simulation, duplicate message simulation, dead-letter queue support, and new testing scenarios.
Adoption history
The repository and Homebrew formula show early package-manager adoption for macOS and Linux users, but evidence of broad ecosystem uptake is still limited. Its adoption story is best understood as an emerging Kafka testing utility rather than a mature infrastructure standard.
How it is used
Users run bundled or custom YAML scenarios against a local Docker-managed Kafka cluster or an external cluster. The README documents traffic generation, load testing, producer and consumer simulation, stream-processing test data, chaos scenarios, monitoring validation, authentication, and serialization formats.
Why package nerds care
khaos is notable because it packages a hands-on Kafka lab into one CLI: local KRaft or ZooKeeper clusters, scenario files, schema formats, synthetic data, and failure simulation are exposed as installable commands instead of ad hoc producer scripts.
Timeline
- 2025-12-23: khaos 0.1.0 initial release.
- 2025-12-25: versions 0.2.0 through 0.4.0 added Avro, Protobuf, Schema Registry, and scenario categories.
- 2025-12-27: version 0.5.0 added custom scenario files and Docker support.
- 2026-01-02: version 0.7.0 added consumer failure, duplicate-message, and DLQ simulations.
- 2026-01-05: version 0.7.1 fixed external-cluster authentication and managed-cluster retention behavior.
Related projects
- khaos sits near Apache Kafka, Kafka UI, Schema Registry, Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams, Docker Compose, and Faker-backed synthetic data generators.
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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for khaos. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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Configuration and credential file locations
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Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
./my-scenario.yaml/path/to/custom-scenario.yaml
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Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
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khaos | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
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Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.7.1
manager updated2026-06-27
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:khaos |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.7.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic/khaos |
| Repository | https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic/khaos |
| Last updated | 2026-06-27T10:27:00Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
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