It is an observability console for Istio with service mesh configuration capabilities. It helps you to understand the structure of your service mesh by inferring the topology, and also provides the health of your mesh.
Kiali is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
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Golang, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Akutan, Otomi are some of the popular tools that integrate with Kiali. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Kiali.