title: Kiali, Service mesh observability and configuration date: 2021-02-24 14:22:10 categories: [devops] tags: [kiali]
Kiali is a management console for Istio-based service mesh. It provides dashboards, observability and lets you to operate your mesh with robust configuration and validation capabilities. It shows the structure of your service mesh by inferring traffic topology and displays the health of your mesh. Kiali provides detailed metrics, powerful validation, Grafana access, and strong integration for distributed tracing with Jaeger.