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 May 27, 2025

Installing OpenShift Service Mesh 3 with Kiali and OpenShift monitoring

Jcordoba

This article covers the installation of OpenShift Service Mesh 3 (based in the Istio upstream Sail operator), Kiali and OpenShift monitoring for metrics. The following versions are used: Red Hat …

Posted April 23, 2025

Troubleshooting Istio Ambient with Kiali V2

Jcordoba

The GA release of Istio Ambient has been long awaited, but it can sometimes be challenging to determine whether an application is properly included in the mesh, and what processing capabilities are …

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 …

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Published June 6, 2025

Kiali sprint demo v2.11

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Published May 16, 2025

Kiali Sprint 25 - 07 Demo [v2.10] - Servicemesh management for Istio

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Published April 28, 2025

Kiali Sprint 25 - 06 Demo [v2.9] - Servicemesh management for Istio

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