Service mesh management
for Istio
Kiali answers the questions:
Which microservices are part of my service mesh?
How are they connected?
How are they performing?
How can I operate on them?
"This is the kind of tool that you really need" — David Gageot, Google
About Kiali
Kiali is a management console for Istio-based service mesh. It provides dashboards, observability and lets you to operate your mesh with robust configuration and validation capabilities. It shows the structure of your service mesh by inferring traffic topology and displays the health of your mesh. Kiali provides detailed metrics, powerful validation, Grafana access, and strong integration for distributed tracing with Jaeger.
Features
Topology
See your services
communicate
Health
Quickly identify
issues
Metrics
Chart Istio and App
performance
Tracing
Follow requests with
Jaeger Distributed Tracing
Validations
Detect advanced
misconfigurations
Wizards
Easily configure Istio
routing
Configuration
See and edit Istio
custom resource YAML
More to come...
Latest in our blog
Trace my mesh (part 1/3)
Joel Takvorian
Kiali tutorial: show custom information per service (like ownership)
Joel Takvorian
Kiali releases 1.25 to 1.28 — Trace heat maps, enhanced health insights and more…
Edgar Hernandez
Increasing observability on Istio: The new Kiali health configuration
Alberto Gutierrez Juanes
Kiali releases 1.21 to 1.24 — What’s new in these two and a half months?
Edgar Hernandez
Kiali releases v1.20 & v1.19 — improved filtering, new metrics, OpenID support and more
Edgar Hernandez
Disabling mTLS for one namespace with PeerAuthentications
Xavier Canal
Kiali Sprint v1.18 & v1.17 — improved list pages, Istio 1.6 support and more
Edgar Hernandez
Kiali with production-scale Prometheus
Joel Takvorian
Kiali Sprint #36 & #37 — GRPC and Kafka enhancements, caching and more
Edgar Hernandez
Getting started videos Go to videos
Latest videos Go to videos
Sprint demo videos Go to videos
Events and talks
Scaling microservices architectures with a service mesh: using Istio and Kiali
@rutlucas
Istio Cookbook: Kiali Recipe Workshop
@rutlucas
The Power of Istio Service Mesh From the container platform to the application platform
@ola_mey, @DBrintzinger
Visualize and secure your service mess with Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Jordi Sola Alaball
Observability in Action: troubleshooting the service mesh with Kiali
@xeviknal
Kiali as an Observability Console for Istio
Hayk Hovsepyan