Kiali Chatbot tools (schemas)

Kiali Chatbot uses internal MCP-style tools (implemented inside Kiali) to fetch live data and perform safe actions. These are not external MCP server tools.

Administrators can control which of these tools are exposed to the AI by using chat_ai.tools for global filtering and chat_ai.providers[].tools for provider-specific filtering. Use the exact tool names below in enabled_tools and disabled_tools.

The tool input schemas are defined in Kiali under kiali/ai/mcp/tools/*.yaml. The tool outputs are JSON structures returned by the Kiali backend and consumed by the model and/or UI.

Tool list

• get_action_ui: returns UI navigation actions (buttons/links).
• get_logs: returns workload or pod logs with optional filtering.
• get_mesh_status: returns high-level mesh health, control plane, observability stack, and connectivity status.
• get_mesh_traffic_graph: returns a compact service-to-service traffic topology with metrics such as throughput, response time, and mTLS.
• get_metrics: returns Istio or Envoy metrics for services, workloads, or apps.
• get_pod_performance: returns current pod CPU and memory usage versus requests and limits.
• get_referenced_docs: returns relevant Istio and Kiali documentation links.
• get_trace_details: returns the hierarchy and span details for a specific trace.
• list_or_get_resources: lists resources or returns details for services, workloads, apps, and namespaces.
• list_traces: returns a compact list of distributed traces for a service.
• manage_istio_config_read: lists or gets Istio config in read-only mode.
• manage_istio_config: creates, patches, or deletes Istio config with a confirmation flow for sensitive actions.