Chapter 8. Configuring OpenShift Monitoring with Kiali


The following steps show how to integrate the Kiali Operator provided by Red Hat with user-workload monitoring.

Prerequisites

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is installed.
  • User-workload monitoring is enabled. See Enabling monitoring for user-defined projects.
  • OpenShift Monitoring has been configured with Service Mesh. See "Configuring OpenShift Monitoring with Service Mesh".
  • Kiali Operator provided by Red Hat 1.89 is installed.

Procedure

  1. Create a ClusterRoleBinding resource for Kiali:

    Example ClusterRoleBinding configuration

    apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
    kind: ClusterRoleBinding
    metadata:
      name: kiali-monitoring-rbac
    roleRef:
      apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
      kind: ClusterRole
      name: cluster-monitoring-view
    subjects:
    - kind: ServiceAccount
      name: kiali-service-account
      namespace: istio-system

  2. Create a Kiali resource and point it to your Istio instance:

    Example Kiali resource configuration

    apiVersion: kiali.io/v1alpha1
    kind: Kiali
    metadata:
      name: kiali-user-workload-monitoring
      namespace: istio-system
    spec:
      external_services:
        prometheus:
          auth:
            type: bearer
            use_kiali_token: true
          thanos_proxy:
            enabled: true
          url: https://thanos-querier.openshift-monitoring.svc.cluster.local:9091

  3. When the Kiali resource is ready, get the Kiali URL from the Route by running the following command:

    $ echo "https://$(oc get routes -n istio-system kiali -o jsonpath='{.spec.host}')"
  4. Follow the URL to open Kiali in your web browser.
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