What is Kiali?
It is an observability console for Istio with service mesh configuration capabilities. It helps you to understand the structure of your service mesh by inferring the topology, and also provides the health of your mesh.
Kiali is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses Kiali?
Companies
20 companies reportedly use Kiali in their tech stacks, including Groww, Labs, and Modanisa.com.
Developers
46 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kiali.
Kiali Integrations
Elasticsearch, Golang, Cassandra, Akutan, and Otomi are some of the popular tools that integrate with Kiali. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Kiali.
Kiali's Features
- Weighted Routing Wizard
- Matching Routing Wizard
- Suspend Traffic Wizard
- Advanced Options
- More Wizard examples.
Kiali Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kiali?
Jaeger
Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing System
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Istio
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Zipkin
It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. Features include both the collection and lookup of this data.
