The Road Ahead: Istio Observability

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Demo shows Istio observability wired to New Relic Kubernetes integration collecting Prometheus metrics from Envoy sidecar proxies and Kubernetes pods on cluster Con42, with live logs and dashboards that work end to end. It surfaces exact metrics like request_total and request_duration_milliseconds, plus request/response byte histograms, certificate expiry and Go runtime counters. NRQL queries build per‑pod request‑volume charts and response‑code breakdowns, proving the pipeline actually produces useful visualizations and alerts.

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1. 0:00intro
2. 0:14speaker background
3. 1:07understanding microservices
4. 2:12introduction to istio
5. 3:30istio control plane components
6. 4:29istio data plane and monitoring
7. 6:21demo: monitoring with new relic
8. 9:31visualizing metrics and conclusion

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