Kiali as an Observability Console for Istio
summary
Kiali runs as an Istio-aware UI that visualises mesh topology and animates live traffic, reads Prometheus metrics and embeds Jaeger traces, and exposes a visual service graph plus per-service dashboards. It lets users split traffic by percentage, route by headers/user-agent, and edit Istio YAML with an YAML editor with validation (Galley-backed) or an interactive traffic-wizard. Deployed on Kubernetes/OpenShift as part of OpenShift Service Mesh, these features operate in real time and report misconfigurations.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 0:32Microservices deployments can be hard
- 1:20Microservices on Service Mesh
- 2:11Istio Service Mesh Architecture
- 2:54Istio Core Features
- 4:54Kiali Architecture
- 6:10Graph: Traffic Animation
- 6:31Applications
- 7:18Workloads
- 8:07Detailed Metrics
- 8:41Istio Configurations
- 9:16Traces: Jaeger Integration
- 9:54Overview
- 10:45Services: Traffic Routing
- 11:09Wizard: Matching
- 11:39Wizard: Weighted
- 12:06Wizard: Suspend
- 12:59Istio Configuration YAML Editor
- 13:25Kiali Core Features Sum Up
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