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.