Kiali

• It's required the install prometheus first!

# Manually from the istio repo
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/refs/heads/master/samples/addons/kiali.yaml

# With the official helm chart
helm repo add "kiali" "https://kiali.org/helm-charts"
helm install "kiali-server" "kiali/kiali-server" -n "istio-system" --set "auth.strategy=anonymous"

# Access the Kiali dashboard (uses port-forward)
istioctl dashboard kiali # port 20001

istioctl install --set "addonComponents.kiali.enabled=true"

Traffic Graph

• App graph: Squares represent a component with label app
• Versioned app graph: App graph but subdivided into more labels, for example label version
• Service graph: Connection between services
• Workload graph: Workloads are analog to a deployment