Kiali is a service mesh observability utility that was originally developed at Red Hat and now is an open- source project. Kiali provides a visual network flow/dependency diagram between different microservices behind the Ingress gateway. Let's take a look:
- Open http://kiali.istio.io/kiali/console and use admin/admin as the user ID and password.
- If the previous curl command to drive the traffic has stopped in the command-line window, start it again to keep sending the traffic to the productpage.
- Navigate to the menu icon from the top left of the page and click on Graph. Select the istio-lab namespace:
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- Toggle the Display drop-down and check Node Names
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Service Nodes, Traffic animation, Virtual Services, and Security. - Select Requests per second from Edge Labels.
- Select App from Graph Type, as follows:
- Toggle the Display drop-down and check Node Names
The animation shows...