Installing and Upgrading

Keep in mind that some additional software can be required depend of test type.


There are two ways to install Taurus on Windows. The recommended way is to use the prebuilt installer that will install latest Taurus on your PC. Also, if you already have Python installed, you can install Taurus manually with pip, Python package manager, but this is not recommended.

Installing Taurus With Prebuilt Installer

Download an installer and run it on your system. It will install local Python 3.7 and Taurus with all its dependencies.


  • You can use /S option of the installer to perform silent installation.

After the installation is finished, you can run Taurus with bzt from command prompt. Also, you'll have 'Taurus' shortcut in the Start menu.

If you want to install additional Python packages along with Taurus (for example Locust, Molotov or others), you should utilize the following command line utilities provided by the installer:

  • bzt-pip is a wrapper for pip that can be used to install packages, for example bzt-pip install locust
  • bzt-run can be used to launch packages that were installed with bzt-pip, for example bzt-run locust


  • You need to install fresh setuptools and wheel before installing everything else with bzt-pip, so the command is

bzt-pip install setuptools wheel.

Installing Taurus Manually

Install Taurus System Dependencies

  1. Get Python 3.7+ from and install it, don't forget to enable "Add python.exe to Path" checkbox.
  2. Get latest Java from and install it.

Install Taurus Python Dependencies

Open Command Prompt with administrative privileges (find Command Prompt in main menu and chose Run as administrator from context menu). Then run the following command to update Python package manager to the latest version:

pip install --upgrade pip wheel

Install Taurus

pip install bzt

This should install all Taurus dependencies and Taurus itself. You may have to execute this command as an administrator, if that's how your Python installation handles Python packages.

Upgrading Taurus

To upgrade Taurus, open Command Prompt as administrator and run

pip install --upgrade bzt

Mac OS

Install Homebrew Package

You can use brew package manager to install taurus:

brew install bzt

and to update it:

brew upgrade bzt

If your brew auto update is switched off don't forget to manage it manually.


You will need Python 3.6+ and Java installed. To install Taurus on Linux, do the following instructions:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3 default-jre-headless python3-tk python3-pip python3-dev \
  libxml2-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev net-tools
sudo python3 -m pip install bzt

Upgrading to latest is as simple as this:

sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade bzt

Alternatively, you can install using virtualenv, and you will not need sudo privileges for Taurus. Please see virtualenv instructions for setting up your Python virtual environments, if you haven't done so already.

Then, to install Taurus, type:

pip install bzt

Upgrade is only:

pip install --upgrade bzt

Docker Image

Taurus has Docker image that allows you to run tool as container.

To use it, create a directory, for example /tmp/my-test, put all configs and additional files like JMXses there, then start Docker like this:

sudo docker run -it --rm -v /tmp/my-test:/bzt-configs blazemeter/taurus my-config.yml

Make note that /tmp/my-test was passed in -v Docker option, it's crucial. Here's what happens inside the container:

  1. Directory /tmp/my-test is mounted as /bzt-configs
  2. Current directory changed to /bzt-configs
  3. Taurus is started with the config files you specified: `bzt /bzt-configs/my-config.yml

You can also specify multile config files in the docker run command with wildcards or as separate arguments like so:

sudo docker run -it --rm -v /tmp/my-test:/bzt-configs blazemeter/taurus *.yml
sudo docker run -it --rm -v /tmp/my-test:/bzt-configs blazemeter/taurus my-config-1.json my-config-2.json

Additional Taurus Command-Line Options

You can still pass command-line options to Taurus through the Docker image. To do so, add the command line option at the end of the docker run command like so:


Accessing Taurus Artifacts

If you want to receive Taurus artifacts from container, just mount some directory as /tmp/artifacts and files will get there. Following example gives you artifacts in /tmp/my-run-artifacts directory.

sudo docker run -it --rm -v /tmp:/bzt-configs -v /tmp/my-run-artifacts:/tmp/artifacts blazemeter/taurus

Latest Unstable Snapshots

Python wheel package: bzt-

Windows installer: TaurusInstaller_1.14.1.10643_x64.exe

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