Networking

Vocabulary around networking and request traffic.

Destination

For more information see the Destination definition in the Istio Glossary.

Destination Rule

For more information see the Istio Destination Rule Documentation.

Endpoint

A communication endpoint is a type of communication network node. It is an interface exposed by a communicating party or by a communication channel.

Error Rate

It’s the percentage of errors in the traffic to a specific object for a Rate Interval.

Gateway

For more information see the Gateway definition in the Istio Gateway Documentation.

Inbound Metrics

Metrics on requests received by a given Workload, Service or Application.

Outbound Metrics

Metrics on requests emitted by a given Workload or Application.

Port

For more information see the Istio Port Documentation.

Rate Interval

It’s an amount of time. By Default in Kiali last 10 minutes.

Rule

It’s an object that manages external access to the services in a cluster, typically HTTP.

Source

For more information see the Source definition in the Istio Glossary.

Subset

For more information see the Istio Subset Documentation.