ali mit Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• ali

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in September 2020 by Ryo Nakao. The README describes ali as a load-testing tool capable of real-time analysis, inspired by vegeta and jplot.

The project combines HTTP attack generation with a TUI that can plot metrics while the test is running. Its README also calls out export support for downstream processing, which gives it both interactive and script-adjacent workflows.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ali has broad package-manager presence for a small load-testing tool. The README documents Homebrew, MacPorts, APT, RPM, Pacman, APK, Go, and Docker installation paths, and the input facts also list Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Pacman, and Alpine packages.

Official GitHub metadata checked for this batch showed several thousand stars and more than a hundred forks, suggesting visible adoption among developers looking for terminal-first HTTP benchmarking tools.

Wie es verwendet wird

The simplest usage is `ali http://host.xz`, then launching the attack from the UI with default rate and duration. Users can tune rate, duration, workers, headers, request bodies, TLS settings, HTTP/2 behavior, DNS resolvers, and export directory through flags.

Its real-time terminal charts make it useful during exploratory testing, quick endpoint smoke tests under load, and demos where immediate feedback matters more than a full benchmarking lab.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ali is package-nerd-friendly because it is a single Go CLI that feels like a mashup of `vegeta` and terminal dashboards. Installing it through a package manager gives users a quick, reproducible load-test command without building a local observability stack.

It also shows a common packaging pattern for developer CLIs: upstream release binaries, distro packages, Homebrew taps/formulae, Docker, and `go install` all coexist.

Zeitleiste

• 2020: Public GitHub repository created.
• 2020s: README documents Homebrew, distro package, Go, and Docker installation paths.
• 2026: Repository metadata still shows active project visibility with thousands of stars.

Related projects

• Related projects include vegeta for HTTP load testing, jplot for plotting inspiration, and termdash/termbox-go for terminal rendering.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/nakabonne/ali
• https://github.com/nakabonne/ali
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nakabonne/ali/master/README.md
• source_facts.package-manager