diff --git a/tests/trafficmanagement/circuitbreaker_test.go b/tests/trafficmanagement/circuitbreaker_test.go
index 9e118a12b7..6a01f4612f 100644
--- a/tests/trafficmanagement/circuitbreaker_test.go
+++ b/tests/trafficmanagement/circuitbreaker_test.go
@@ -27,22 +27,8 @@ func TestCircuitBreaker(t *testing.T) {
 			Add(
 				istioio.Script{Input: istioio.Path("scripts/circuitbreaker_test_setup.txt")},
 				istioio.MultiPodWait("istio-io-circuitbreaker"),
-				istioio.Script{
-					Input: istioio.Evaluate(istioio.Path("scripts/trip_circuitbreaker.txt"), map[string]interface{}{
-						"isSnippet":                false,
-						"inputTerminalFlag":        "",
-						"beforeCircuitBreakVerify": " 2>&1 | verify_circuit_breaking 60 100 0 40",
-						"afterCircuitBreakVerify":  " 2>&1 | verify_circuit_breaking 20 80 20 80",
-						"outputRedirectionCmd":     "2>&1",
-					}),
-					SnippetInput: istioio.Evaluate(istioio.Path("scripts/trip_circuitbreaker.txt"), map[string]interface{}{
-						"isSnippet":                true,
-						"inputTerminalFlag":        "-it",
-						"beforeCircuitBreakVerify": "",
-						"afterCircuitBreakVerify":  "",
-						"outputRedirectionCmd":     "",
-					}),
-				}).
+				istioio.Script{Input: istioio.Path("scripts/trip_circuitbreaker.txt")},
+			).
 			Defer(istioio.Script{Input: istioio.Path("scripts/circuitbreaker_test_cleanup.txt")}).
 			Build())
 }
diff --git a/tests/trafficmanagement/scripts/trip_circuitbreaker.txt b/tests/trafficmanagement/scripts/trip_circuitbreaker.txt
index e2e6f1f61a..630beacdfe 100644
--- a/tests/trafficmanagement/scripts/trip_circuitbreaker.txt
+++ b/tests/trafficmanagement/scripts/trip_circuitbreaker.txt
@@ -20,72 +20,42 @@ set -o pipefail
 
 # $snippet test_fortio_httpbin_interaction.sh syntax="bash" outputis="text"
 $ FORTIO_POD=$(kubectl get pods -n istio-io-circuitbreaker | grep fortio | awk '{ print $1 }')
-$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec {{ .inputTerminalFlag }} $FORTIO_POD -c fortio /usr/bin/fortio -- load -curl http://httpbin:8000/get
+$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec $FORTIO_POD -c fortio -- /usr/bin/fortio load -curl http://httpbin:8000/get
 # $verify verifier="contains"
 200 OK
 # $endsnippet
 
-function ruby_eval() {
-  ruby -e "p $1"
-}
-
-# check_percentage_bounds take 4 arguments as input. It must be invoked as follows
+# FIXME / TODO: These tests previously relied on checking that the
+# percentage of 200 and 503 responses fell within a given range. That
+# turned out to be flaky, so for now they are only checking that both
+# 200 and 503 responses are recorded, and ignoring the number of each.
+# That should be fixed at some point.
 #
-# $ check_percentage_bounds <percentage-lower-bound-200> <percentage-upper-bound-200> \
-#                           <percentage-upper-bound-503> <percentage-upper-bound-503>
-#
-# Percentage of requests with status 200 must be between "percentage-lower-bound-200" and
-# "percentage-upper-bound-200" inclusive. Same for 503. If bounds are breached then the
-# function exits with status 1
-function check_percentage_bounds() {
-  local lower_bounds=( ["200"]=${1:-"100"}  ["503"]=${3:-"0"} )
-  local upper_bounds=( ["200"]=${2:-"100"}  ["503"]=${4:-"0"} )
-
-  readarray -t code_lines < <(grep -E "^Code ([1-5][0-9]{2,}) : [0-9]+ \(([0-9\.]+) %\)$")
-  
-  for code_line in "${code_lines[@]}"; do
-    local status_code=$(echo $code_line | cut -d' ' -f2)
-    local percentage_req=$(echo $code_line | cut -d' ' -f5 | sed "s/[\(]//g")
-
-    local status_lower_bound=${lower_bounds[$status_code]}
-    local status_upper_bound=${upper_bounds[$status_code]}
-  
-    local is_lower_bound_breached=$(ruby_eval "$percentage_req < $status_lower_bound")
-    local is_upper_bound_breached=$(ruby_eval "$percentage_req > $status_upper_bound")
- 
-    if [[ $is_lower_bound_breached == "true" || $is_upper_bound_breached == "true" ]]; then
-      echo "either lower bound or upper bound is breached"
-      echo "status=$status_code actual=$percentage_req, low=$status_lower_bound high=$status_upper_bound"
-      exit 1
-    fi
-  done
-}
-
-function verify_circuit_breaking() {
-  local fortio_output=`cat` # preserve output
-
-  echo "$fortio_output" | check_percentage_bounds $1 $2 $3 $4
-  if (($? != 0)); then
-    exit 1;
-  fi
-
-  echo "$fortio_output"
-}
+#    Original PR: https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/6609
+#  Temporary fix: https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/7043
+#          Issue: https://github.com/istio/istio.io/issues/7074
 
 # $snippet almost_trip_circuit_breaker.sh syntax="bash" outputis="text"
-$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec {{ .inputTerminalFlag }} $FORTIO_POD -c fortio /usr/bin/fortio -- \
-    load -c 2 -qps 0 -n 20 -loglevel warning http://httpbin:8000/get {{ .beforeCircuitBreakVerify }}
+$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec $FORTIO_POD -c fortio -- /usr/bin/fortio \
+    load -c 2 -qps 0 -n 20 -loglevel warning http://httpbin:8000/get
+# $verify verifier="contains"
+Code 200 :
+# $verify verifier="contains"
+Code 503 :
 # $endsnippet
 
-
 # $snippet trip_circuit_breaker.sh syntax="bash" outputis="text"
-$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec {{ .inputTerminalFlag }} $FORTIO_POD -c fortio /usr/bin/fortio -- \
-    load -c 3 -qps 0 -n 30 -loglevel warning http://httpbin:8000/get {{ .afterCircuitBreakVerify }}
+$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec $FORTIO_POD -c fortio -- /usr/bin/fortio \
+    load -c 3 -qps 0 -n 30 -loglevel warning http://httpbin:8000/get
+# $verify verifier="contains"
+Code 200 :
+# $verify verifier="contains"
+Code 503 :
 # $endsnippet
 
 # $snippet print_statistics_after_tripping.sh syntax="bash" outputis="text"
-$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec {{ .inputTerminalFlag }} $FORTIO_POD -c istio-proxy -- \
-    pilot-agent request GET stats | grep httpbin | grep pending {{ .outputRedirectionCmd }}
+$ kubectl -n istio-io-circuitbreaker exec $FORTIO_POD -c istio-proxy -- \
+    pilot-agent request GET stats | grep httpbin | grep pending
 # $verify
 cluster.outbound|8000||httpbin.istio-io-circuitbreaker.svc.cluster.local.circuit_breakers.default.rq_pending_open: ?
 cluster.outbound|8000||httpbin.istio-io-circuitbreaker.svc.cluster.local.circuit_breakers.high.rq_pending_open: ?