Reference, Istio Addon

If you want to enable metrics collection, you can do as following:

Reference

kubectl apply -f install/kubernetes/addons/prometheus.yaml
kubectl apply -f install/kubernetes/addons/grafana.yaml
kubectl apply -f install/kubernetes/addons/servicegraph.yaml

It may take some time to process all the components installed.

1. Install Grafana

1 - You can type following command to configure port-forwarding for grafana

kubectl -n istio-system port-forward \
    $(kubectl -n istio-system get pod -l app=grafana -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') \
        3000:3000 &

2 - Then open uri http://localhost:3000/dashboard/db/istio-dashboard with your browser, you should see following page:

2. Install Service Graph

1 - You can type following command to configure port-forwarding for servicegraph

kubectl -n istio-system port-forward \
    $(kubectl get pod -n istio-system -l app=servicegraph -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') \
        8088:8088 &

2 - The open url http://localhost:8088/dotviz or http://localhost:8088/graph with your browser, if there exist the services, you should see JSON data or graph.

3. Zipkin Dashboard

1 - You can type following command to configure port-forwarding for zipkin

kubectl -n istio-system port-forward \
    $(kubectl get pod -n istio-system -l app=zipkin -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') \
        9411:9411 &

2 - Then open uri http://localhost:9411/zipkin/ with your browser, you should see following page:

4. Prometheus

1 - You can type following command to configure port-forwarding for prometheus

 kubectl -n istio-system port-forward \
     $(kubectl -n istio-system get pod -l app=prometheus -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') \
         9090:9090 &

2 - Then open uri http://localhost:9090/graph with your browser, you should see following page:

5. Summary

Then the istio addon environment has been finished and prepared.