Let's take a look at some of the open source visualization tools that can be used for distributed tracing, dependency visualization between services, and monitoring dashboards with the data we've collected through Prometheus. First, let's take a look at the Grafana dashboard, which has been built by the Istio community to show monitoring features:
- Launch the Grafana dashboard by going to http://grafana.istio.io.
- From the left-hand navigation panel, click on the Configuration (gear) and click on Data Sources:
Notice that the backend data source is configured using Prometheus.
- Go back to the navigation panel, click on Dashboard, and navigate to Manage
.
- Next, go to the search bar and type Istio
.
The search output shows Galley, Mesh, Mixer, Performance, Pilot, Service, and Workload dashboard. - Click on Istio Mesh Dashboard:
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