# 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. Also installable with zypper: sudo zypper install fortio.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:fortio
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fortio
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install fortio
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/fortio/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install fortio
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fortio from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:fortio
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.75.2
- **Source summary:** HTTP and gRPC load testing and visualization tool and server
- **Homepage:** <https://fortio.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/fortio/fortio>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-12T00:03:15Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fortio (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.75.2
## 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.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/fortio/fortio>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/fortio/fortio/releases?per_page=15>
- <https://fortio.org/>
- <https://github.com/fortio/fortio>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fortio/fortio/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

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

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- zypper - fortio - 1.63.3-1.10: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fortio from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server and web UI | https://github.com/fortio/fortio
- MacPorts - fortio: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/fortio/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fortio.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fortio.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph