Service mesh observability
and configuration
Kiali answers the questions:
What microservices are part of my Istio service mesh?
How are they connected?
How are they performing?
"This is the kind of tool that you really need" — David Gageot, Google
About Kiali
Kiali is an observability console for Istio with service mesh configuration capabilities. It helps you to understand the structure of your service mesh by inferring the topology, and also provides the health of your mesh. Kiali provides detailed metrics, and a basic Grafana integration is available for advanced queries. Distributed tracing is provided by integrating 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...
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