Connecting Managed Anthos Service Mesh to Kiali

[Lucas]

We deployed the managed Anthos Service Mesh to our GCP (not Anthos) GKE.

From my understanding, it is not possible to control istio via Kiali with a managed ASM, which is fine.

Our goal is to visualize the services and Virtual Services.

According to 

https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/supported-features-mcp#metrics managed ASM should be possible to export relevant metrics to Kiali/Prometheus as such feature is labeled as optional.

But no document is provided in https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/managed-service-mesh-optional-features.

Could anyone provide some insights?

[abdelfettah]

Hi,

You will have to install kiali, You can follow the public docs

https://kiali.io/docs/installation/installation-guide/

https://kiali.io/docs/installation/quick-start/

[Lucas · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply. But it didn't fully answer my question.

I've figured it out myself.

1. We need to install a Prometheus and configure it to scrape metrics from envoy sidecars.

  some details: https://istio.io/latest/docs/ops/integrations/prometheus/

  envoy sidecar metric export should be enabled by default. If otherwise, try to customize the config or force it by annotation.

  set it to scrape from /stats/prometheus at port 15090

2. set up Kiali as documented.