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Install fortio with Homebrew, MacPorts, zypper

HTTP and gRPC load testing and visualization tool and server. Version 1.75.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-12.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install fortio

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install fortio

MacPorts ports tree · net/fortio/Portfile · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

HTTP and gRPC load testing and visualization tool and server

Commands and aliases

  • fortio

history

Project history and usage

Fortio is a Go HTTP and gRPC load-testing tool, server, web UI, and embeddable library. It runs at a specified query-per-second rate, records latency histograms, computes percentiles, and includes echo, proxy, reporting, and debugging server features.

Project history

Fortio started as Istio's load-testing tool and later graduated in 2018 into its own open-source project. The official README says it reached 1.0 in June 2018 after one year of development and 42 incremental releases.

The project has continued as a multi-purpose networking and performance toolkit. Official materials describe Fortio not only as the fortio command, but also as a set of Go packages such as stats, fhttp, dynamic flags, logging, CLI helpers, proxying, and related Fortio-family tools.

Adoption history

Fortio's adoption is tied to cloud-native and microservice testing. Its site notes its Istio origin and demo presence, the README links Docker images and binary releases for many OS/architecture combinations, and the project advertises use by Meshery among other consumers.

How it is used

The main fortio command can run HTTP or gRPC load tests, start a server with web UI and REST API, perform curl-like single requests, run TCP or UDP echo/proxy modes, report saved JSON results, and execute scripts. Typical load-test flags include target QPS, connection count, duration or call count, histogram resolution, headers, payloads, and JSON output.

Why package nerds care

Fortio is significant because it packages repeatable latency testing into a single static-friendly Go CLI while also exposing server and library surfaces. It sits at the intersection of benchmark tools, service-mesh testing, Docker images, package-manager installs, and embeddable Go networking components.

Timeline

  • 2017: GitHub repository created.
  • 2018: Fortio graduated from Istio tooling and reached 1.0.
  • 2025: 1.7x release stream continued with frequent releases.
  • 2026: 1.75.x releases published.

Related projects

  • Fortio is historically related to Istio and compares in its own FAQ ecosystem with load generators such as wrk and HTTP debugging services such as httpbin. Related Fortio projects include Fortio Proxy, Fortiotel, dflag, log, cli, scli, smap, and multicurl.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:http,server

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
fortiocliglobal 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 generated2026-07-08
manager version1.75.2
manager updated2026-06-12
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/fortio/fortio

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:fortio
Version1.75.2
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fortio
Homepagehttps://fortio.org/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/fortio/fortio
Upstream docshttps://github.com/fortio/fortio#readme
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/fortio/fortio.git
Last updated2026-06-12T00:03:15Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namefortio
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

zypper95%

fortio 1.63.3-1.7

Load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server and web UI

https://github.com/fortio/fortio

sudo zypper install fortio
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fortio
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fortio
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fortio from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

fortio

sudo port install fortio
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fortio
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: net/fortio/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • ohaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, http, load-testing, networking.
  • plowShares av.db curated category or tags: benchmarking, cli, http, load-testing, networking.
  • bombardierShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, http, load-testing, networking.
  • dnsperfShares av.db curated category or tags: benchmarking, cli, load-testing, networking.
  • httpdShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, http, networking, server.
  • proxygenShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, http, networking, server.

source trail

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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment