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Azure Chaos Studio

microsoftdocs/azure-chaos-studio

Expert knowledge for Chaos Studio development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when designing Chaos Studio experiments, AKS resiliency tests, ARM/Bicep deployments, Private Link, or Azure Monitor telemetry, and other Chaos Studio related development tasks. Not for Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Resiliency (use azure-resiliency), Azure Reliability (use azure-reliability), Azure Site Recovery (use azure-site-recovery).

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-chaos-studio

The instruction itself

10 sections, as written by the author

Chaos Studio Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Chaos Studio. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Troubleshooting | L35-L43 | Diagnosing and fixing Chaos Agent install/health issues, interpreting agent status on VMs, and troubleshooting Chaos Studio workspaces, scenarios, and common experiment failures. |

| Best Practices | L44-L48 | Guidance for designing and running Chaos Studio experiments to validate and improve Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) workload resiliency under failure scenarios. |

| Decision Making | L49-L53 | Guidance on when to use Chaos Studio workspaces vs individual experiments, comparing their use cases, management scope, and how to choose the right model for your scenario. |

| Limits & Quotas | L54-L62 | Limits, quotas, compatibility, and preview constraints for Chaos Studio: supported OS/faults, version matrix, throttling/usage caps, and workspace preview limitations. |

| Security | L63-L78 | Securing Chaos Studio: identity, RBAC and least-privilege roles, AKS auth/IPs, CMK encryption, relay/agent networking, and VNet injection to control experiment access and targets. |

| Configuration | L79-L90 | Defining and deploying Chaos Studio experiments and agents with ARM/Bicep, configuring targets/capabilities, parameters, Azure Policy auto-onboarding, and Private Link networking. |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L91-L98 | Using CLI/REST to create and manage Chaos Studio workspaces/experiments, plus patterns for sending experiment and agent telemetry to Azure Monitor and Application Insights. |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Resolve Azure Chaos Agent known issues and workarounds | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-agent-known-issues |

| Troubleshoot Azure Chaos Agent installation and health | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-agent-troubleshooting |

| Verify and interpret Chaos Agent status on VMs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-agent-verify-status |

| Troubleshoot Azure Chaos Studio workspaces and scenarios | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/troubleshoot-workspaces-scenarios |

| Troubleshoot common Azure Chaos Studio experiment issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/troubleshooting |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Test AKS workload resiliency with Chaos Studio | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-aks-guidance |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Choose between Chaos Studio workspaces and experiments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-workspaces-vs-experiments |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Check OS and fault compatibility for Chaos Agent | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-agent-os-support |

| Review Azure Chaos Studio limitations and issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-limitations |

| Azure Chaos Studio throttling and usage limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-service-limits |

| Azure Chaos Studio version and compatibility matrix | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-versions |

| Understand Chaos Studio workspace preview limitations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-workspaces-limitations |

Security

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Use Chaos Studio Relay Bridge Host container image securely | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/azure-container-instance-details |

| Understand Chaos Agent networking, identity, and dependencies | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-agent-concepts |

| Configure Entra authentication for Chaos Studio AKS faults | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-aks-authentication |

| Authorize Chaos Studio IP ranges for AKS clusters | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-aks-ip-ranges |

| Assign experiment permissions and roles in Azure Chaos Studio | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-assign-experiment-permissions |

| Configure customer-managed keys for Chaos Studio experiments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-configure-customer-managed-keys |

| Map Chaos Studio fault targets to required Azure roles | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-fault-providers |

| Configure permissions and security for Azure Chaos Studio | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-permissions-security |

| Secure Chaos Studio with virtual network injection | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-private-networking |

| Control Chaos Studio targets and capabilities securely | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-targets-capabilities |

| Configure identity and RBAC for Chaos Studio workspaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-workspace-permissions |

| Create least-privilege custom roles for Chaos Studio | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-workspaces-least-privilege-roles |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Deploy and configure Chaos Agent via ARM templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-agent-arm-template |

| Configure and manage Azure Chaos Studio agent | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-agent-overview |

| Author Chaos Studio experiments with Bicep templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-bicep |

| Use Chaos Studio fault and action parameters | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-fault-library |

| Set up Private Link for Chaos Studio agent experiments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-private-link-agent-service |

| Configure Azure Policy to auto-add Chaos Studio targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/sample-policy-targets |

| Define Chaos Studio experiments with ARM templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/sample-template-experiment |

| Use ARM templates to configure Chaos Studio targets and capabilities | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/sample-template-targets |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Manage Chaos Studio workspaces via Azure CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-manage-cli |

| Call Azure Chaos Studio REST APIs with CLI samples | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-samples-rest-api |

| Send Chaos Agent experiment telemetry to App Insights | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-set-up-app-insights |

| Integrate Azure Monitor telemetry with Chaos Studio experiments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-studio-set-up-azure-monitor |

| Create Chaos Studio experiments via CLI and portal | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/experiment-examples |

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoftdocs/azure-chaos-studio from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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