Steadybit vs. Harness Chaos Engineering

You can use both solutions in your CI/CD workflows, but Steadybit proactively detects reliability weaknesses and can be fully customized to fit your systems.

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Why teams go with Steadybit over Harness

Steadybit is the only chaos engineering tool that offers open source customization with enterprise-grade features.

Fully Customizable

With an open source extension framework, Steadybit enables teams to customize the platform to perfectly fit their systems and use cases. Add your own custom actions!

Get Insights Faster

We provide recommended experiments so you can get value from experiments right away. Try a variety of attacks quickly and safely with our library of ready-to-run templates.

Easily Scale Your Program

Steadybit doesn’t slow down your testing adoption with limits on users, agents, or experiment executions. Our plans are designed to make it easy to onboard new teams and scale testing coverage.

Steadybit Lowers the Chaos Engineering Learning Curve

With an intuitive, extensible platform; it’s easier to shift left your testing and build a culture of reliability.

Comparing Steadybit vs. Other Tools

See the exact benefits of reliability testing with Steadybit compared to other tools like Harness.

Building Your First Experiment

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Running Your First Experiment

View your experiments run in real-time within the Steadybit platform.

Reviewing Reliability Advice

Start making reliability improvements fast by reviewing issues Steadybit flags automatically.

Automating Experiment Workflows

Incorporate experiments into your software development however you want by using the Steadybit API and CLI.

Comparing Steadybit vs. Harness

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GETTING STARTED FAST

Automatic Reliability Issue Discovery

Reliability Advice - 15 checks out-of-the-box and add your own custom advice

No automatic issue discovery or advice functionality.

Recommended Experiments

Create specific experiments in one-click directly from Advice prompts

No recommended experiments, just pre-built faults that can be used in experiments

Custom Experiment Templates

Users can import 80+ open source experiment templates or create their own

No experiment template functionality

PLATFORM FEATURES

Environment Visualization

Landscape Explorer shows systems visually, with customizable grouping and filtering

Some visualization functionality but poor UI limits its usefulness

Experiment Designer

Timeline-based editor with drag-and-drop actions

Workflow-based editor with limited customization

Real time Experiment Runner

13 pre-built reports on experiment activity, teams, and users

4 pre-built reports with custom filters

Reporting and Analytics

13 pre-built reports on experiment activity, teams, and users

4 pre-built reports with custom filters

SUPPORT & EXPERTISE

Ability to Quickly Resolve Issues

Work directly with the Engineering team

Talk with an account manager

Customer Support Options

Dedicated joint Slack channel with the Steadybit team

Support Portal

SCALABILITY & ARCHITECTURE

Customization Options

Add custom extensions, attacks, checks, load tests, and advice with our open source kits

Add custom attacks, but otherwise very limited customization options

Agent Deployment

Install one agent per network boundary

Install one agents in each host separately, which requires time-intensive configuration

Open Source Extensibility

Kits to create extensions, targets, actions, events, advice, & templates

No extension framework. Limited to performing custom attacks via custom containers

On Premises Deployment

Industry-leading supported since 2019

Recently released a version with Limited General Availability

Make Steadybit Your Own with Custom Extensions

Add your own custom extensions, checks, attacks, load tests, & advice.

Need a new integration or want to inject a custom fault? Because Harness has a closed-source architecture, you would need to submit a feature request and wait.

With Extension Kits, you can build on top of Steadybit to create the perfect solution for your organization. Get the benefits of a in-house tool without the maintenance.

Need inspiration? Use our library of 200+ open source actions and templates anytime.

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Why SRE & platform teams choose us

Our customers inspire us everyday with new experiment types and custom extensions to really push their systems to the limit.

"With Steadybit, we identified issues and took corrective measures, improving our overall system resilience. The efficiency of finding these weak spots has vastly increased with Steadybit, and the time to deliver a solution has significantly decreased. We're moving closer to achieving our target of 99.99% uptime."

Krishna Palati

Director of Software Engineering
"I really benefit from Steadybit's programmatic scalability and its interesting features like reliability advice, which bolster our chaos engineering strategy and help it grow into a more self-service capacity. The support team is great; they are always eager to assist us, gather requirements for new features, and help with any implementation issues or malfunctions related to their services."

Angel Daniel B.

Engineering Lead
“Steadybit makes it easy to inject faults and really test our system reliability. Their team delivered a new Kafka extension for us that has unlocked new testing possibilities. They are a supportive partner that has made introducing the platforms to new teams easy.”

Jan Rundshagen

Cloud Platform Engineer
"My experience with Steadybit has been genuinely impressive from day one. The installation was smooth and effortless—we were able to run experiments straight away, which was a huge relief after the challenges we faced with other tools. What really stood out, though, was the team behind it."

Chaos Engineer

@ Global Telecom Company
"Steadybit's efficiency enabled us to simulate and anticipate incidents, fostering proactive problem-solving across our teams."

Antoine Choimet

Site Reliability Engineer
"Steadybit is helping us move from reactive incident handling to proactive reliability engineering, which is a significant shift for an organization of our size. The Steadybit team is highly responsive, technically strong, and genuinely invested in our success."

Ilias Tsakiridis

Site Reliability Engineering Team Lead
"Effortless chaos experiments with an intuitive interface. I like how easy it is to create and safely run chaos experiments, and how intuitive the interface is. Steadybit helps identify and fix reliability weaknesses before they become incidents."

Software Developer

@ Global Ecommerce Company
"Steadybit offers a scalable and performant Chaos Engineering solution that has significantly improved the resilience of our services. If you are seeking a wholistic, end-to-end Chaos Engineering platform, I’d strongly recommend Steadybit."

Krishna Palati

Director of Software Engineering

Predictable Pricing

Our plans are designed so there are no surprise charges as you are rolling out chaos engineering across your organization.

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Open Source Integrations

Sometimes your organization may need proprietary or niche solutions. Leverage our extension kits to gain flexibility and make Steadybit your own.

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Steadybit enable comprehensive reliability testing

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Targeting & Visualization

Support for On-Premises

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Monitoring and Load Testing

Query targets to create the exact experiment you want

When you install our agent on your network, Steadybit will automatically discover any potential experiment targets and pull in related metadata from your environment. With our intuitive query language, you can easily explore targets and view them in an interactive visualization with groups and filters.

Harness doesn’t provide a interactive visualization of your systems. There are limited options for selecting targets for experiments, and no ability to add custom attributes.

Years of experience supporting complex On-Prem deployments

Steadybit has always supported both SaaS and On-Prem deployments with full feature parity from Day 1. Our team has helped enterprise customers deploy and update Steadybit On-Prem for several years.

Harness has only recently announced On-Prem support for their chaos engineering tooling as of last year.

Bidirectional integrations with popular observability tools

Monitoring and observability tools are key for seeing how your systems perform. Steadybit has tight integrations with tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Instana, and more. While you watch your experiment run, you’ll be able to see in real-time whether your monitoring tool raises an alert.

With Harness, there is support for some monitoring tools but the integrations are limited. For example, you can’t see if alerts are triggered while you watch your experiment run.

Faster Deployment and an Open Source Framework

Harness is a closed-sourced tool that requires an agent to be installed on each host. Steadybit is a hybrid-source platform that only requires one agent per network boundary. That means more flexibility and less setup time for your team.

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