Overview
Linkerd provides extensive observability functionality. It automaticallyinstruments top-line metrics such as request volume, success rates, and latencydistributions. In addition to these top-line metrics, Linkerd provides real timestreams of the requests for all incoming and outgoing traffic.
To help visualize all this data, there is a CLI,dashboard and out of the boxGrafana dashboards.
Some deep dive topics on metrics:
- Prometheus
Prometheus collects and stores all the Linkerd metrics. It is a component of the control plane and can be integrated with existing metric systems, such as an existing Prometheus install.- Proxy Metrics Reference
The Linkerd proxy natively exports Prometheus metrics for all incoming and outgoing traffic.