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Kiali Integrations

Integration with other tools and platforms.

1 - Kiali Backstage Plugin

The Kiali Plugin for Backstage

The Kiali Backstage Plugin provides information about each Service Mesh object related with an entity in Backstage, a framework for building developer portals.

Kiali-Backstage-tab

The plugin has different views to be included in Backstage:

  • Added as cards to see resource lists
  • Added as a tab which includes all the predefined Kiali cards
  • Added as a page, which views are not going to be filtered by entities and offer a full Kiali view

Kiali-Backstage-page

The Kiali Backstage plugin is released as a technology preview in Red Hat Developer Hub.

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2 - OSSM Console

OpenShift Service Mesh Console - Dynamic plugin for OpenShift

OpenShift Service Mesh Console (OSSMC) is a Kiali integration for OpenShift Console based on OpenShift dynamic plugins technology. It integrates Kiali UI functionality into the OpenShift Console, providing full visibility of the Service Mesh through a dedicated Service Mesh navigation category with standalone pages for overview, traffic graph, mesh infrastructure, namespaces, applications, services, workloads, and Istio configuration.

OSSMC

OSSMC was first released in September 2022 as a developer preview. It has since been released GA in October 2023.

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