Istio Telemetry API
The Istio Telemetry API (telemetry.istio.io) provides configuration resources for managing observability within an Istio service mesh. The Telemetry resource enables flexible configuration of metrics, access logs, and distributed tracing for workloads. It uses the concept of providers to indicate the protocol or integration type, and supports fine-grained control over what telemetry data is collected and where it is sent.
Istio Telemetry API is one of 14 APIs that Istio publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Metrics, Observability, Service Mesh, Telemetry, and Tracing. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v1alpha1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{cluster}/apis/extensions.istio.io/v1alpha1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Istio Telemetry API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (BearerAuth).
BearerAuth— Kubernetes API server bearer token authentication
Paths & Operations 5
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Telemetry configuration for metrics, tracing, and access logging
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ObjectMeta (6 properties), Telemetry (4 properties), TelemetryList (4 properties), ListMeta (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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