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Getting started

The Linkerd dashboard provides a user-friendly interface for monitoring and managing your Linkerd service mesh within a cluster.

With the dashboard, you can:

  • Monitor the health of the Linkerd control plane.
  • View key performance metrics (“golden metrics”) for all meshed workloads in your cluster.
  • Visualize traffic flow between workloads with an interactive traffic chart, making it easy to identify issues within your service call chain.

Prerequisite: The Linkerd dashboard requires Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL) to be installed in the cluster.

Installation

The dashboard is managed via a Helm chart. To install or upgrade to the latest stable version, run:

helm upgrade -i -n monitoring --create-namespace \
    linkerd-dashboard oci://ghcr.io/buoyantio/linkerd-dashboard
Installing pre-release versions: To install a pre-release version, use the same command as above and specify the desired version with the --version flag.

Accessing the dashboard

To access the dashboard, forward port 8080 from the dashboard workload:

kubectl -n monitoring port-forward deployments/linkerd-dashboard 8080 &

Then, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080.