30 open-source projects similar to shopify/toxiproxy, ranked by shared indexed features. Tags may describe platforms or build tools rather than the same primary purpose. Check each project’s use case, license, and deployment requirements before treating it as a replacement.
Chaos Monkey is a chaos engineering tool designed to verify the resilience of distributed systems by intentionally terminating production instances. It functions as a fault injection service that identifies weaknesses in cloud-based architectures by simulating real-world hardware and software outages. The platform operates through a centralized orchestration engine that executes periodic disruption cycles based on predefined configuration rules. It employs a rule-based selection process that evaluates instance metadata against safety constraints to ensure that only eligible targets are disrup
Mitmproxy is an interactive, programmable network proxy engine designed for traffic analysis and protocol manipulation. It functions as a gateway that intercepts, inspects, and modifies network traffic in real-time, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, DNS, and generic TCP or UDP streams. By acting as a trusted certificate authority, the proxy can dynamically generate and sign certificates to decrypt and analyze secure TLS-encrypted connections. The project distinguishes itself through a highly extensible, event-driven architecture that allows users to automate traffic transformation using cust
This project is a service mesh platform designed to manage, secure, and observe service-to-service communication within Kubernetes clusters. It functions as a control plane that orchestrates transparent sidecar proxies, which intercept and manage network traffic to provide reliable connectivity for microservices. By automating the injection of these proxies, the platform ensures that infrastructure-level policies are applied consistently across all workloads without requiring manual configuration changes. The platform distinguishes itself through its focus on zero-trust security and cross-clu
Chaos Mesh is a cloud-native fault injection tool and Kubernetes chaos engineering platform designed to verify system resilience. It functions as a testing framework for designing and executing automated failure scenarios to evaluate how containerized workloads recover from disruptions. The project acts as a multi-cluster chaos orchestrator, providing a centralized control plane to manage and monitor experiments across multiple remote Kubernetes clusters from a single interface. It includes a dashboard for the visual scheduling of experiments and the coordination of complex failure scenarios.
Litmus is a cloud native chaos engineering platform and fault injection tool used to design and execute controlled infrastructure failure simulations within Kubernetes environments. It serves as a resilience testing framework for analyzing system behavior during induced outages to identify weaknesses and potential outages. The project functions as a GitOps chaos orchestrator, using declarative version control to automate the deployment and scheduling of resilience tests. It provides tools for chaos workflow management and the orchestration of experiment sequences to visualize and test infrast
SimianArmy is a chaos engineering framework and resilience testing tool designed to induce random infrastructure failures in cloud environments. It functions as a cloud instance termination tool that simulates unplanned outages to verify that distributed architectures maintain high availability and fault tolerance. The system identifies and terminates cloud server instances to ensure applications can tolerate unexpected hardware failures without interrupting service. This process allows for the verification of automated failover mechanisms and the identification of weaknesses in system reliab
Comcast is a Linux network emulator and degradation tool used to simulate unstable or slow connections. It functions as a network impairment simulator that injects latency, packet loss, and bandwidth limits into network interfaces to verify how software handles adverse conditions. The utility serves as a TCP and UDP traffic shaper, allowing users to restrict bandwidth and filter traffic by destination address, protocol, and port. These capabilities enable the isolation of specific traffic streams to test application resilience when particular services are degraded. The tool provides broader
Tproxy is a set of command-line utilities designed for throttling bandwidth, simulating network latency, proxying TCP traffic, and analyzing connection stability. It provides a toolset for redirecting network traffic from local ports to remote destinations while monitoring the resulting connection behavior. The project differentiates itself by combining traffic manipulation with diagnostic monitoring. It can introduce configurable packet delays and cap upload and download transfer speeds to simulate constrained or low-bandwidth network environments. Beyond traffic control, the utilities incl
Goreplay is an HTTP traffic mirroring tool designed to capture live network traffic from production environments and replay it into test systems for validation. It includes a specialized Kubernetes traffic capturer that operates as a daemonset to mirror traffic from specific pods using label selectors and namespace filters, alongside a TCP traffic recorder for intercepting raw network packets. The project features a Kafka traffic pipeline for streaming captured payloads to topics or ingesting messages for playback, and an HTTP request transformer to mask sensitive data or rewrite headers and
This project provides a framework for managing multi-agent systems, designed to automate complex software development, infrastructure, and business workflows. It functions as a multi-agent workflow orchestrator that routes tasks to domain-specific workers while maintaining state persistence and infrastructure automation. By leveraging large language models, the system decomposes high-level objectives into actionable plans, ensuring that complex operations are executed with consistency and reliability. The framework distinguishes itself through its hierarchical agent registry and policy-driven
Zapret is a deep packet inspection bypass tool and packet manipulation framework designed to circumvent network censorship. It operates as a transparent network proxy and TCP traffic obfuscator that modifies packets to deceive network inspection systems. The project distinguishes itself through advanced desynchronization strategies, including the modification of TLS client hello handshakes and the use of fake packet injection. It utilizes a combination of TCP stream segmentation, sequence overlapping, and TTL adjustment to hide prohibited requests from firewalls while ensuring the destination
XboxDownload is a specialized toolset for accelerating console downloads and retrieving game content delivery network links. It functions as a console file transfer utility and a game store download accelerator designed to resolve storefront connectivity issues. The project distinguishes itself by capturing direct download URLs from digital storefronts to enable the use of external download managers. It also provides the ability to upload local game files from a computer to a gaming console to bypass slow internal download speeds. The software covers network connectivity resolution and traff
Proxyman is a cross-platform HTTP debugging proxy that captures, inspects, and modifies HTTP, HTTPS, and WebSocket traffic. It functions as a man-in-the-middle proxy, decrypting SSL/TLS traffic to allow real-time inspection and modification of encrypted requests and responses. The tool is designed for debugging web and mobile applications, with capabilities for API mocking and simulation, scriptable traffic modification, and team collaboration on network logs. What distinguishes Proxyman is its deep integration with mobile and cross-platform development workflows. It provides automated certif
libhv is a high-performance C/C++ network library and event-driven I/O framework used to build TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT clients and servers. It provides a non-blocking event loop for managing network sockets, timers, and system signals across multiple threads. The project is distinguished by its integrated support for specialized network roles, including a full HTTP web server with RESTful routing and middleware, an MQTT messaging client for IoT communication, and the ability to implement SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies. It also features a reliable UDP implementation to ensure ordered
Linkerd is a Kubernetes service mesh that manages network traffic between microservices. It functions as a transparent networking proxy, layer 7 traffic manager, and mutual TLS security layer, providing observability and reliability for service-to-service communication without requiring changes to application code. The project distinguishes itself through a sidecar-proxy architecture that intercepts TCP and application-level traffic to provide automatic mutual TLS encryption and identity verification. It enables cross-cluster service networking to link multiple clusters and implements cloud-n
MailHog is an email testing tool that functions as a local SMTP server to capture outgoing messages during the development process. By intercepting SMTP traffic, it allows developers to verify email content, headers, and attachments without transmitting messages to actual external recipients. Captured data is stored in an in-memory buffer, ensuring that sensitive information remains accessible for inspection through a dedicated web-based dashboard. The platform distinguishes itself by incorporating network simulation capabilities, which allow for the injection of artificial delays or connecti
This project provides educational materials and courseware focused on the theoretical and practical foundations of distributed systems design. It serves as a comprehensive curriculum covering the disciplines of consensus, data consistency, reliability engineering, and scalability. The instructional content focuses on achieving cluster agreement through consensus algorithms and managing system-wide state via coordination frameworks. It includes a dedicated guide to data theory, exploring replication strategies, consistency models, and data convergence. The courseware covers a broad capability
Hiddify is a cross-platform proxy client designed to manage secure network connections and traffic routing across desktop and mobile operating systems. It functions as a unified proxy manager, providing a centralized interface to configure and control various network proxy protocols for encrypted and private internet access. The application distinguishes itself by integrating local loopback interception, which configures the operating system network stack to route traffic through a local port for granular filtering. It also serves as a self-hosted infrastructure tool, enabling users to automa
Kill Kubernetes pods by playing Id's DOOM!
Proxy for simulating real-world distributed system failures to improve resilience in your applications.
Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes
An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters
chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster.
ChaosBlade is an open-source chaos engineering platform that injects faults into applications, containers, Kubernetes clusters, and host systems to test resilience. It functions as a multi-layer fault injection tool, capable of disrupting system resources, Java, C++, NodeJS, and Golang applications, Docker containers, and Kubernetes pods and nodes from a single interface. The platform distinguishes itself through its architecture, which defines chaos experiments as Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions for native cluster integration, and supports multiple fault injection mechanisms including
Chaos Engineering Toolkit & Orchestration for Developers
Rathole is a reverse proxy tunneling tool designed to expose local services behind firewalls and network address translation to the public internet. It functions as a secure tunneling infrastructure that enables remote access to private network resources without requiring manual router port forwarding configurations. The system utilizes a client-server architecture where a public-facing gateway coordinates with a private-network agent. It distinguishes itself by multiplexing multiple logical service connections through a single persistent TCP stream, which reduces the overhead of maintaining
Websockify is a WebSocket-to-TCP proxy and tunneling server that enables web browsers to communicate with servers or applications that only support standard TCP connections. It functions as a network bridge and connection broker, translating bidirectional WebSocket frames into raw TCP packets to facilitate remote browser access to backend services. The system acts as a secure socket gateway that supports multi-tenant socket routing, allowing multiple clients to be directed to different backend targets based on unique URL tokens or hostnames. It secures data in transit by wrapping connections
Proxychains is a SOCKS proxy chain tool and TCP traffic redirector that forces outgoing network connections from applications into a specified sequence of proxy servers. It functions as a proxy sequence orchestrator, routing TCP network traffic through multiple SOCKS or HTTP proxies to anonymize network paths and bypass firewalls. The tool includes a remote DNS resolver that performs domain name resolution through a remote proxy to prevent DNS leaks and hide queries. This ensures that network traffic from applications that are not proxy-aware is redirected through the configured intermediarie