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# Chaos Faults

Chaos faults are the core building blocks of chaos experiments. They simulate various failure scenarios to test the resilience of your applications and infrastructure.

## Available Fault Categories <a href="#available-fault-categories" id="available-fault-categories"></a>

### [Chaos Faults](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/faults/chaos-fault-categories/chaos-faults-reference.md) <a href="#chaos-faultschaos-fault-categorieschaos-faults-referencemd" id="chaos-faultschaos-fault-categorieschaos-faults-referencemd"></a>

Browse our comprehensive collection of pre-built chaos faults for various platforms and services.

### [Custom Faults](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/faults/custom-faults/index.md) <a href="#custom-faultscustom-faultsindexmd" id="custom-faultscustom-faultsindexmd"></a>

Create and manage your own custom chaos faults using BYOC (Bring Your Own Chaos) capabilities.

## Getting Started <a href="#getting-started" id="getting-started"></a>

1. **Explore Available Faults**: Browse the [chaos faults](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/faults/chaos-fault-categories/chaos-faults-reference.md) to see what's available
2. **Understand Fault Tunables**: Learn about [common tunables](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/faults/chaos-fault-categories/common-tunables-for-all-faults.md) that apply to all faults
3. **Create Custom Faults**: Use [BYOC](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/faults/byoc/byoc.md) to create your own fault types

## Next Steps <a href="#next-steps" id="next-steps"></a>

* [Run your first experiment](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/new-to-chaos-engineering/quickstart.md)
* [Learn about probes](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/use-chaos-engineering/probes/index.md)
* [Set up governance](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/use-chaos-engineering/governance/rbac.md)

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