Kiali

The Kiali plugin can be used to visualize your Istio service mesh within kobs. You can select a list of namespaces for which the topology graph from Kiali should be retrieved. When you select a node or edge in the topology graph you can view the detailed metrics for the selected edge or node.

Configuration

The following configuration can be used to access a Kiali instances running on kiali.kobs.io. We also enable the visualization of the traffic and set the threshold to mark edges with degraded performance or failures.

plugins:
  kiali:
    - name: Kiali
      description: Service mesh management for Istio.
      address: https://kiali.kobs.io
      traffic:
        degraded: 1
        failure: 5

Field	Type	Description	Required
name	string	Name of the Kiali instance.	Yes
displayName	string	Name of the Kiali instance as it is shown in the UI.	Yes
description	string	Description of the Kiali instance.	No
home	boolean	When this is true the plugin will be added to the home page.	No
address	string	Address of the Kiali instance.	Yes
username	string	Username to access a Kiali instance via basic authentication.	No
password	string	Password to access a Kiali instance via basic authentication.	No
token	string	Token to access a Kiali instance via token based authentication.	No
traffic.failure	number	Threshold to mark edges with failures. This must be a number between 0 and 100. The default value is 5.	No
traffic.degraded	number	Threshold to mark edges with degraded performance. This must be a number between 0 and 100. The default value is 1.	No

Options

The following options can be used for a panel with the Kiali plugin:

Field	Type	Description	Required
namespaces	[]string	A list of namespaces for which the topology graph should be shown.	Yes