Configure, visualize, validate and troubleshoot your mesh!
Kiali is a console for Istio service mesh. Kiali can be quickly installed as an Istio add-on, or trusted as a part of your production environment. See below for more about what Kiali offers, or just Get Started!
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Posted August 4, 2026
Kiali releases 2.16 to 2.30: Features update
Hello Kiali community!
It has been an extraordinary sequence of 15 releases! From Kiali v2.16 through v2.30, the team has delivered major infrastructure, visual, observability, and AI milestones. …
Posted May 19, 2026
Closing the Gap: Bringing Sidecar-Level Tracing to Istio Ambient and Kiali
Istio Ambient has been steadily evolving across recent releases. This evolution hasn’t always been linear; behaviors have shifted, and certain features only recently reached stability. Although …
Posted September 16, 2025
Running Kiali Locally!
Starting with v2.15, you can now run Kiali directly on your machine without installing it into your cluster. Why? Because it’s an easy and efficient way to run Kiali.
Installation Trade-offsNormally …