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Deploying a demo version of the telemetry add-ons
The YAML files to deploy a demo version of Prometheus, Grafana, and Kiali are
available in the Istio GitHub repository. Although these YAML files make it
easy for you to deploy an instance of Prometheus, Grafana and Kiali to your
cluster, these files aren't meant to take the place of installing and
configuring the applications yourself.
To deploy a demo version of the add-ons to your cluster:
If you need to delete the add-ons, you can do so with the kubectl delete -f
command.
Istio provides a set of
preconfigured dashboards
for Grafana. These dashboards are included in the demo version. You can also
import the dashboards
into an existing Grafana deployment.
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