Monitor Istio easily with Grafana
Easily monitor your deployment of Istio, an open source service mesh platform designed to enhance the management, security, and observability of microservices in distributed applications, with Grafana Cloud’s out-of-the-box monitoring solution. The Grafana Cloud forever-free tier includes 3 users and up to 10k metrics series to support your monitoring needs.
Key metrics included
envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_rx_bytes_total
envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_tx_bytes_total
galley_validation_failed
galley_validation_passed
go_memstats_heap_alloc_bytes
go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes
go_memstats_heap_sys_bytes
istio_agent_go_memstats_heap_alloc_bytes
istio_agent_go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes
istio_agent_go_memstats_heap_sys_bytes
istio_agent_process_cpu_seconds_total
istio_agent_process_open_fds
istio_agent_process_resident_memory_bytes
istio_agent_process_virtual_memory_bytes
istio_build
istio_request_bytes_sum
istio_request_duration_milliseconds_count
istio_request_duration_milliseconds_sum
istio_requests_total
istio_response_bytes_sum
istio_tcp_received_bytes_total
istio_tcp_sent_bytes_total
istiod_uptime_seconds
pilot_conflict_inbound_listener
pilot_conflict_outbound_listener_tcp_over_current_tcp
pilot_info
pilot_k8s_cfg_events
pilot_total_xds_internal_errors
pilot_total_xds_rejects
pilot_xds_cds_reject
pilot_xds_eds_reject
pilot_xds_lds_reject
pilot_xds_pushes
pilot_xds_rds_reject
pilot_xds_write_timeout
process_cpu_seconds_total
process_open_fds
process_resident_memory_bytes
process_virtual_memory_bytes
sidecar_injection_failure_total
sidecar_injection_success_total
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Key alerting rules included
IstioHighRequestLatencyWarning (Warning)
IstioGalleyValidationFailuresWarning (Warning)
IstioListenerConfigConflictsCritical (Critical)
IstioXDSConfigRejectionsWarning (Warning)
IstioHighHTTPRequestErrorsCritical (Critical)
IstioHighGRPCRequestErrorsCritical (Critical)
IstioMetricsDown (Critical)