Istio Observability Concepts

Istio Observability Concepts An architecture diagram generated by Archify. Application · Business container · Pod Application Business container Envoy Proxy · Sidecar · Pod Envoy Proxy Sidecar Prometheus · Metric collection · Architecture component Prometheus Metric collection Jaeger · Distributed tracing · Architecture component Jaeger Distributed tracing Logging System · Log collection · Architecture component Logging System Log collection Kiali · Service mesh dashboard · Architecture component Kiali Service mesh dashboard Grafana · Dashboard · Architecture component Grafana Dashboard Jaeger UI · Trace analysis · Architecture component Jaeger UI Trace analysis Traffic Metrics Traces Logs Visualization Analysis Query Pod Legend Visualization / dashboards In-pod workload / sidecar Telemetry collection backends

Key auto-generated metrics

  • • istio_requests_total — total request count
  • • istio_request_duration_milliseconds — request latency
  • • istio_request_bytes / istio_response_bytes — request and response size
  • • istio_tcp_connections_opened_total — TCP connection count