Linkerd provides out-of-the-box observability functionality through its interactive dashboard. It can instrument critical metrics such as service request volume, success rates, and network latency. In addition to these metrics, Linkerd can enable real-time data streams of network requests for all incoming and outgoing traffic for all the running services being monitored by Linkerd.
The Linkerd dashboard provides a high-level, robust view of the services being monitored in real-time. There is a term called golden metrics that can offer perspective to the overall service details, such as success rate, network requests, network latency, service dependency visualization, and view service route health checks.
This can be seen in the following screenshot:
To recap from earlier in this chapter, the dashboard can be enabled by running the linkerd dashboard command from...