Kiali is an open source project that provides answers to the question: what are the microservices in my Istio service mesh doing?

Joined March 2018
🚀 The Kiali v2.33 demo (Sprint 26-13) is now available!
✨ What's new: OSSMC connects to multiple Kiali instances, Fleet view with ACM, and new Prometheus guides.
🐛 Fixes: Envoy and ztunnel metrics.
📺 Watch it here: youtu.be/a58V0CRwE2s?is=P6P9…
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🚀 Kiali v2.32 is out! ✅ Canary upgrade UX improvements ✅ New "Show Kiali" toggle on Mesh page ✅ Prometheus scaling guidance ✅ 3 CVEs patched 🔒 ✅ AI chat access controls 🎥 Watch the sprint demo: youtu.be/N3LKmbwSJ1Q?feature… #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh #kubernetes
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🚀 Kiali v2.31 is here! Key highlights from today's Community Meeting:  ✨ OSSMC backend switching & Fleet dev preview 🤖 AI/MCP docs updated 🔐 OIDC Logout & CVE fixes 🐛 Fixed Istio validation bugs  Full breakdown: youtu.be/JCJAoMohGBQ?is=lyqG… #Kiali #ServiceMesh
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Kiali v2.30! 🚀 Highlights: ✅ Ambient Mesh L7 Istio validations. 🤖 Context-aware UI AI assistant. 🛠️ Bug fixes & UI updates.  Watch the demo: youtu.be/__JxN_Wea6A?is=ZeM6… #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh
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Kiali v2.29! Dive into our top new features: ✨ UX: Upgraded Istio Config page featuring the new Monaco Editor.  ⚡ UI: Migrated to RsBuild for ~5x faster front-end builds.  🤖 AI: Enhanced MCP with Ambient capabilities,ñ. youtu.be/ABcEvIv4QzI?is=lf_c…
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🚀 Kiali v2.28 is here! 🧠 Context-aware AI & MCP prompts to optimize token usage 📊 New customizable columns for Services & Workloads 🛡️ Stricter RBAC & Go 1.26 upgrade 🕸️ Istio Ambient v1.30 validated  🎥 Watch the sprint demo here: youtu.be/REjbzajEuBc?is=xa0q… #Kiali #Istio
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🚀 The Kiali v2.27 demo is live! Check out the new AI streaming, detail page UX redesigns, and OSSMC updates. Watch here: youtu.be/8H7L8ace7N4?is=pmI1… #Kiali #ServiceMesh
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🚀 Kiali v2.26 is here!  ✨ Fresh UX for Detail pages 🤖 Google Model Provider AI support 🐛 Istio 1.30 Ambient fixes  Catch the full release breakdown in our sprint review 👇 🔗 youtu.be/sIflsqa_Buo?is=NHiO… #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh
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🚀 Kiali v2.25 is here ✨ Better health tooltip & UX
🔐 New authz config for namespace control
📊 Smarter Graph Find behavior
⚡ Faster CI + Codecov
🤖 AI improvements & testing updates 🎥 Watch the sprint demo:
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🚀 Kiali v2.24 is here! ✨ Service Insights: New TCP Throughput & card customization 🏗️ Architecture: MCP refactored for LLM efficiency & 80% less metric cardinality 🌐 Namespaces: New "Mode" column for Sidecar/Ambient Watch the demo: youtu.be/R9F2o0I-4rs #Mesh #Istio
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🚀 Kiali v2.23 Sprint Demo highlights: • New Overview dashboard • Interactive app health charts • Redesigned Namespaces page • MCP payload ↓ ~81% for better LLM efficiency • New chatbot tools (logs & metrics) 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=BDdgJdDv…
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🚀 Kiali v2.22 (Sprint 26-02) is here!  ✨ Highlights: 🤖 AI Chatbot & MCP Server Dev Preview 🛡️ SPIRE Support for identity visibility ⚡ Health Precompute for faster performance  Watch the full demo 👇 youtu.be/IvjwJcdSJEk?si=VDkZ… #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh #Kubernetes
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Celebrating 8 years of Kiali! 🥂✨ From our first service graph in 2018 to the advanced mesh-wide observability of v2.0+, it’s been an incredible journey. Thanks to this amazing community! See how far we’ve come: youtu.be/ahPXKdYv4yY 🚀 #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh
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Kiali v2.21 boosts traffic graph speed with session caching + smoother rendering, cleaner masthead UX, and an improved traffic shifting wizard. Stronger OIDC/PKCE auth, enforced TLS, auto-rotating certs & key UI/graph fixes. 🎥 youtu.be/F-yz87DrN2w?si=8rXy…
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🚀 Kiali 2025: A Year in Review! We’ve officially moved into the v2.x era! 🛠️ 📈 The Stats: • 17 Sprints (S116-S132) • 20 Releases (v2.0 ➡️ v2.20) • 1,450+ PRs merged • 850+ Issues addressed #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh #OpenSource #Kubernetes #Observability
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🎨 UI: Major upgrade to PatternFly 6 + New Notification Center. 🔭 Observability: Native Perses dashboards & optimized Tempo tracing. 💻 DX: "Run Locally" mode—run Kiali on your machine, connect to any cluster. ☁️ Mesh: Advanced Ambient Mesh visuals & Gateway API validation.
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🎥 Kiali v2.20 Sprint 25-17 demo is out! Highlights include PatternFly 6 migration, new Notification Center, TypeScript 5 upgrade, published AI Policy, and multiple bug fixes across Mesh, Istio Config, and Ambient detection. 👉 youtu.be/ewCuBmr9ajM?si=pG0z… #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh
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🚀 Kiali v2.19 is out! New AI contribution policies, improved Gateway API support, customizable initContainers, and tons of important bug fixes. Catch the full breakdown in my sprint update video 🎬👇 🔗 youtu.be/XUKG7ubAgsg?si=h-0X… #Kiali #Istio #ServiceMesh #Kubernetes #DevOps
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🚀 New sprint demo(v2.18)! ✨ Highlights: •New OpenShift URL format for Perses dashboards •NetObserv badge in OSSM •Improved side panel for multi-mesh •Key CI & hack-script updates •Several important bug fixes 🎥: youtu.be/p-tP7GOosRE?si=SdZ_…
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