Inspecting Logs

You can use the Tetrate Platform to gather logs from both your application services, and for the envoy sidecar that handles requests on behalf of the service.

Logs are streamed on demand

Note that logs are streamed on demand; they are not automatically collected in the background for later inspection. Use the Tetrate platform in an interactive fashion to view logs in near-real time.

Gateway Logs are not Permitted

Generally, your permissions will not allow you to view Gateway logs directly, as these may contain logs messages for traffic that is outside of your Workspace scope.

You can display logs for up-to-two services within a pod. Here we display the logs for the istio-proxy sidecar and for the details service in the details pod:

Log Format

The istio-proxy uses a standard Envoy access-log format to log each request (and response) in a single access log line.

It may be easier to use the table view to understand the contents of the access log: