Installation

Fortio can be installed and used on basically any platform/method.

Docker

We publish a multi architecture docker image (linux/amd64, linux/arm64, linux/ppc64le, linux/s390x): fortio/fortio.

Examples

Server:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 8079:8079 fortio/fortio server &

Simple test run:

docker run fortio/fortio load http://www.google.com/

From source

1. Install go (golang 1.18 or later)
2. go install fortio.org/fortio@latest
3. you can now run fortio (from your gopath bin/ directory, usually ~/go/bin)

The releases page has binaries for many OS/architecture combinations (see assets):

curl -L https://github.com/fortio/fortio/releases/download/v1.40.1/fortio-linux_amd64-1.40.1.tgz \
 | sudo tar -C / -xvzpf -
# or the debian package
wget https://github.com/fortio/fortio/releases/download/v1.40.1/fortio_1.40.1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i fortio_1.40.1_amd64.deb
# or the rpm
rpm -i https://github.com/fortio/fortio/releases/download/v1.40.1/fortio-1.40.1-1.x86_64.rpm
# and more, see assets in release page

MacOS

On a MacOS you can also install Fortio using Homebrew:

brew install fortio

Windows

On Windows, download https://github.com/fortio/fortio/releases/download/v1.40.1/fortio_win_1.40.1.zip and extract fortio.exe to any location, then using the Windows Command Prompt:

fortio.exe server

(at the prompt, allow the windows firewall to let connections in)

Once fortio server is running, you can visit its web UI at http://localhost:8080/fortio/

You can get a preview of the reporting/graphing UI at https://demo.fortio.org