Kiali - The Console for Istio Service Mesh

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Configure, visualize, validate and troubleshoot your mesh! Kiali is a console for Istio service mesh. Kiali can be quickly installed as an Istio add-on, or trusted as a part of your production environment. See below for more about what Kiali offers, or just Get Started!

Topology

See your services communicate

Health

Quickly identify issues

Details

Examine details, logs and metrics

Tracing

Follow requests with Jaeger Distributed Tracing

Validations

Detect advanced misconfigurations

Wizards

Easily configure Istio routing

Configuration

See and edit Istio custom resource YAML

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Posted February 8, 2025

From 0 to Cloud-Native Dev environment in less than 5 Minutes: Istio Ambient & Kiali

Jcordoba

Sometimes, having a complete and working example of an application in a service mesh on Kubernetes is not so easy to start from scratch. With these simple steps, you will have Istio Ambient running …

Posted October 21, 2024

Kiali 2.0 for Istio

Jay Shaughnessy

It’s been seven+ years and Istio Service Mesh is still on the rise. And for nearly as long the Kiali project has been developed alongside, to supply a world class console for Istio. Istio continues to …

Posted September 27, 2024

Installing OpenShift Service Mesh 3 (TP1) with Kiali and Grafana Tempo

Jcordoba

This article outlines the steps to install the new OpenShift Service Mesh 3 operator (Technology preview, based in the Istio upstream Sail operator), with Kiali as UI and Grafana Tempo for distributed …

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Published February 20, 2025

Kiali Sprint 25 - 03 Demo [v2.6] - Servicemesh management for Istio

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Published January 31, 2025

Kiali Sprint 25 - 02 Demo [v2.5] - Servicemesh management for Istio

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Published January 10, 2025

Kiali Sprint 25 - 01 Demo [v2.4] - Servicemesh management for Istio

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