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Jager with istio

I am facing difficulty in working with jaeger and Istio.

Can anyone please describe the steps that are to be followed in configuring jaeger and istio for any demo application. I have tried a few blogs and sites but unfortunately, nothing worked for me. if anyone could help me in this that would be great.

Solution

  • I hope you have followed the official documentation of the jager with istio.

    If you are using the helm chart make the following changes required. 

    In main values.yaml file
tracing:
  enabled: true

In tracing/values.yaml
provider: jaeger

    Export the dashboard via Kube port-forward or ingress.

    Official Documentation. https://istio.io/docs/tasks/telemetry/distributed-tracing/jaeger/

    NOTE: The important thing by default jaeger will trace something like 0.1% request i.e. 1 request out of 100 so put a lot of requests only then you can see a trace in UI.