Grafana dashboards for Istio¶
Grafana is an open source monitoring solution used to configure dashboards for Istio^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md]. It allows users to visualize Metrics recorded by Prometheus, tracking the health of both the Istio control plane and applications within the service mesh^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
Included Dashboards¶
The sample integration provides several pre-configured dashboards for monitoring different aspects of the mesh^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md]:
- Mesh Dashboard: Provides an overview of all services in the mesh^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
- Service Dashboard: Provides a detailed breakdown of Metrics for a specific service^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
- Workload Dashboard: Provides a detailed breakdown of Metrics for a specific workload^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
- Performance Dashboard: Monitors the resource usage of the mesh^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
- Control Plane Dashboard: Monitors the health and performance of the control plane^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
- WASM Extension Dashboard: Provides an overview of mesh-wide WebAssembly extension runtime and loading state^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
Integration¶
Grafana is often deployed alongside other observability tools such as [[Kiali]], which offers a basic Grafana integration for advanced metric queries^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md]. Sample configurations are available to quickly deploy these addons, though they are optimized for quick starts rather than production use^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md].
Sources¶
^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-k8s-istio-samples-addons-readme.md]