Service mesh observability through Kiali

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:

1. Open http://kiali.istio.io/kiali/console and use admin/admin as the user ID and password.
2. 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.
3. Navigate to the menu icon from the top left of the page and click on Graph. Select the istio-lab namespace:

• • Toggle the Display drop-down and check Node Names, Service Nodes, Traffic animation, Virtual Services, and Security.
  • Select Requests per second from Edge Labels.
  • Select App from Graph Type, as follows:

The animation shows...