Collecting Istio Metrics with Prometheus
Collecting Istio Metrics with Prometheus

Collecting Istio Metrics with Prometheus

Author
Shiv Bade
Tags
istio
prometheus
metrics
Published
September 2, 2018
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Istio injected rich telemetry for free via Envoy sidecars. But metrics are only useful if you collect and act on them.
Our setup: - Istio’s Prometheus scraping enabled via Helm - Custom Grafana dashboards for service latency, error rates - Alertmanager thresholds for SLO violations
The benefit? Observability with zero application code changes.
Service meshes like Istio abstracted away many cross-cutting concerns — but came with a learning curve.