- True – A sidecar proxy sends asynchronous telemetry data to backend services.
- False – Observability and monitoring a system are two different things.
- True – The recommended web UIs for Istio's monitoring and observability features are Grafana, Prometheus, Kiali, and Jaegar.
- False – Port forwarding is not the only way to access different web UI components. Ingress rules and node port mechanisms can also be used to access a web UI.
- True – Istio reports multiple spans within a microservice chain.
- True – Prometheus is a web UI tool that can visualize collected data or metrics.
- True – Custom dashboards in Grafana provide details for inbound and outbound workloads.
- True – All mis-configurations are highlighted in red under the YAML viewer in Kiali.