With Dynatrace you get full observability for Istio Service Mesh without touching any code thanks to auto-instrumentation. Seamless end-to-end traces and logs for microservices and sidecar-proxies will help you to better understand the potential anomalies that may impact your mission-critical applications. Comprehensive metrics give you insights into topology and the control-plane and data-plane of your Istio mesh. Dynatrace automatically analyzes detects and diagnoses problems in your microservices or Istio mesh in real-time and pinpoints the root cause thanks to our proprietary AI engine.

• Automated discovery and distributed tracing for all Envoy proxies alongside your workloads within your mesh
• Assess the health of Istio control plane and data plane (Envoy proxies)
• Monitor the performance (overhead) of your Istio Service Mesh
• Istio specific problem detection and root cause analysis across complex microservice patterns
• Discover and analyze horizontal topology between workloads, pods and services over the mesh
• Use dashboards to visualize service mesh component status and performance

End-to-end traces & logs in context

1. Set up Dynatrace on Kubernetes or OpenShift and enable Istio in your Dynakube.
2. Ensure deep monitoring for Envoy & log monitoring is enabled
3. Ensure that OneAgent feature "Envoy Istio Sidecar monitoring" is activated

Istio Metrics

For Istio metric ingest and dashboards, simply activate the extension in your environment using the in-product Hub, follow the configuration steps and you’re all set up.

Read more in the Prometheus metric documentation

Note: When deep monitoring for Envoy is enabled, Dynatrace will disable previously configured third-party tracers, in the process of automatically discovering and configuring distributed tracing for all Envoy proxies alongside your workloads within your mesh. This will not impact the distributed tracing insight you get in Dynatrace, but it will make Istio stop exporting trace data to third-party locations you might have previously configured.

It is already on our roadmap to achieve full interoperability and allow sending traces to Dynatrace without impacting third-party tracers.