Monitor & Visualize

Collecting new telemetry data

kubectl apply -f ${HOME}/environment/istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}/samples/bookinfo/telemetry/metrics.yaml

Make sure Prometheus and Grafana are running

kubectl -n istio-system get svc prometheus grafana


NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
prometheus   ClusterIP   10.100.3.219     <none>        9090/TCP   14h
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
grafana      ClusterIP   10.100.211.214   <none>        3000/TCP   14h

Open a new terminal tab and setup port-forwarding for Grafana by executing the following command

kubectl -n istio-system port-forward $(kubectl -n istio-system get pod -l app=grafana -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') 8080:3000

Open the Istio Dashboard via the Grafana UI

  • In your Cloud9 environment, click Preview / Preview Running Application
  • Scroll to the end of the URL and append:
dashboard/db/istio-mesh-dashboard
  • Click the ‘Pop Out Into New Window’ button

Grafana FullScreen

Open a new terminal tab and use these commands to send a traffic to the mesh

export GATEWAY_URL=$(kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname}')

watch --interval 1 curl -s -I -XGET "http://${GATEWAY_URL}/productpage"

You will see that the traffic is evenly spread between reviews:v1 and reviews:v3

Grafana Dashboard

We encourage you to explore other Istio dashboards that are available by clicking the Istio Mesh Dashboard menu on top left of the page, and selecting a different dashboard.