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Package summary

Kafka traffic simulator for observability and chaos engineering

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khaos

history

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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security posture

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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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 5 runtime dependencies.

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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

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`khaos`	cli	global executable

freshness

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 generated2026-07-25

manager version0.7.1

manager updated2026-06-27

local dataok

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latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic/khaos

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install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:khaos
Version	0.7.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/khaos
Homepage	https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic/khaos
Repository	https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic/khaos
Upstream docs	https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic/khaos#readme
License	Apache-2.0
Source archive	https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7f/0c/932228842cb6c0357fa4f41c5e68afaf3b41b7698f0794af300533594432/khaos_cli-0.7.1.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-06-27T10:27:00Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	certifi, cryptography, librdkafka, libyaml, python@3.14
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	khaos
Version Scheme	0
Revision	8
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

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Combined YAML source

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combined/khaos.yml

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