Kuma Metrics grafana

To visualize traffic metrics dashboards we can use grafana to visualize:

-- Installing metricskumactl install metrics | kubectl apply -f -

Once we have installed the required dependencies, we can now go ahead and enable metrics on our Mesh object by executing:

echo "apiVersion: kuma.io/v1alpha1kind: Meshmetadata:  name: defaultspec:  mtls:    enabledBackend: ca-1    backends:    - name: ca-1      type: builtin  metrics:    enabledBackend: prometheus-1    backends:    - name: prometheus-1      type: prometheus" | kubectl apply -f -

This will enable the prometheus metrics backend on the default Mesh and automatically collect metrics for all of our traffic.

Now let’s go ahead and generate some traffic – to populate our charts – by using the demo application!

while [ true ]; do curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/items?q=; curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/items/1/reviews; done