Concepts

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Application

Is a logical grouping of Workloads defined by the application labels that users apply to an object. In Istio it is defined by the Label App. See Istio Label Requirements.

Application Name

It’s the name of the Application deployed in your environment. This name is provided by the Label App on the Workload.

Envoy

A proxy that Istio starts for each pod in the service mesh. For more information see the Istio Envoy Documentation.

Envoy Health

A health check performed by Envoy proxies, for inbound and outbound traffic: see membership_healthy and membership_total from Envoy documentation.

Networking

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Destination

For more information see the Destination definition in the Istio Glossary.

Destination Rule

For more information see the Istio Destination Rule Documentation.

Endpoint

A communication endpoint is a type of communication network node. It is an interface exposed by a communicating party or by a communication channel.

Error Rate

It’s the percentage of errors in the traffic to a specific object for a Rate Interval.

Gateway

For more information see the Gateway definition in the Istio Gateway Documentation.

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