IMesh

• Features
• Docker images
• Deploy Imesh
  • Deploy IMesh in k8s
  • Deploy IMesh with Istio Ingress Gateway
  • Deploy IMesh with pvc
• Configuration
• Troubleshooting
• Releases
• Contributing
• LICENSE

Table of contents generated with markdown-toc

• Forked from - https://github.com/nghialv/promviz and https://github.com/nmnellis/vistio

IMesh is an application that helps you visualize the traffic of your cluster from Prometheus data.

It has 2 components:

• IMesh-API: retrieves data from Prometheus servers, aggregates them and provides an API to get the graph data.

• Imesh-Web: render traffic graph.

Dependency

• Prometheus
• Istio 1.10+

Features:

• Generates and renders traffic graph in realtime
• Able to replay from any time in the past
• Able to generate notices on node and connection from prom query
• Provides a sidecar application for k8s that watches config changes and reload Vistio server in runtime
• Fits with Istio's metrics

Docker images

Docker images of both imesh-api and imesh-web are available on Docker Hub.

• icyboy/imesh-api
• icyboy/imesh-web

Deploy IMesh

• prometheusURL - the default prometheus url is assumed to be http://prometheus.istio-system:9090 based on the Istio deployment. If your Prometheus server has an internet domain, you will need to edit the yaml files and update prometheusURL value.
• UPDATE_URL - setting your imesh-api server internet domain.

Deploy IMesh In K8s

1. Deploy

kubectl apply -f deploy/deploy.yaml

2. Expose imesh-web

kubectl -n default port-forward $(kubectl -n default get pod -l app=imesh-web -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') 8080:8080 &

3. Open IMesh localhost:8080

4. Expose imesh-api

kubectl -n default port-forward $(kubectl -n default get pod -l app=imesh-api -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') 9091:9091 &

5. Test endpoint localhost:9091/api/graph

6. Add traffic to the mesh by following bookinfo demo here Istio Bookinfo Demo and to get the GATEWAY_URL and calling

curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" http://${GATEWAY_URL}/productpage

Deploy IMesh with Istio Ingress Gateway

kubectl apply -f deploy/deploy-ingress.yaml

Deploy IMesh with pvc

kubectl apply -f deploy/deploy-pvc.yaml

Configuration

See configuration.md in documentation directory.

Troubleshooting

1. Blank Vistio home page - this typically means that the Prometheus query at the global level is not returning any data or the data is not matching the labels in the source or target configuration. Grab the globalLevel query and test it against Prometheus directly to verify the data is correct. Example global level query sum(rate(istio_requests_total[1m])) by (response_code)

2. Cannot Zoom into clusters - If you are having trouble connecting your clusters to the global view, make sure the target values in the global configuration matches the cluster level name.

• Example global level target - in this example I rename all target values to cluster1-mesh

    globalLevel:
      ...
        target:
          replacement: cluster1-mesh

• Example clusterLevel configuration - the cluster name cluster1-mesh matches the target value at the global level

    clusterLevel:
    - cluster: cluster1-mesh

Releases

https://github.com/icyboy/imesh/releases

• 1.0.0 - Initial Release

Contributing

Please feel free to create an issue or pull request.

LICENSE

IMesh is released under the GPL-3.0 license. See LICENSE file for details.