ISTIOCTL-DASHBOARD-PROMETHEUS(1)

💅 ISTIOCTL-DASHBOARD-PROMETHEUS — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to the istioctl-dashboard-prometheus manual page 💖 this is the doc for the prometheus subcommand of the istioctl dashboard command set — like, the little dashboard-openers that live inside istioctl. it's short, it's sweet, and it literally just opens a web UI for you. no cap. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

istioctl-dashboard-prometheus — open the Prometheus web UI 🎀

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

istioctl dashboard prometheus [flags]

that's the whole shape of it. command, then optional [flags]. done. iconic.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

open Istio's Prometheus dashboard. that's it. that's the whole vibe 🔥 you run it, it opens the dashboard, you go look at your metrics like the main character you are.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help[=false] — help for prometheus. classic. the "wait what does this do again" button 🫶
• --ui-port=9090 — the component dashboard UI port. this is the port the dashboard UI itself runs on, and the default is 9090 💅

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these are the flags you get for free from the parent command — they're not unique to prometheus, but they're absolutely here and you should lowkey know about them:

• --address="localhost" — address to listen on. it only accepts an IP address or localhost as a value, no funny business 🙈 and when localhost is what you pass, istioctl will try to bind on both 127.0.0.1 and ::1 — and it will fail if neither of those addresses is available to bind. so yes, the failure is real, not a vibe.
• --as="" — username to impersonate for the operation. the user could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace ✨
• --as-group=[] — group to impersonate for the operation. this flag can be repeated so you can specify multiple groups, which is honestly so accommodating of it 🎀
• --as-uid="" — UID to impersonate for the operation.
• --browser[=true] — when --browser is supplied as false, istioctl dashboard will not open the browser. default is true, which means istioctl dashboard will always open a browser to view the dashboard. so if you're like "please don't launch a browser at me" — pass false. slay.
• --context="" — Kubernetes configuration context.
• -i, --istioNamespace="istio-system" — Istio system namespace. defaults to istio-system, as it should 💜
• --kubeclient-timeout="15s" — Kubernetes client timeout as a time.Duration string, and it defaults to 15 seconds. ⏰
• -c, --kubeconfig="" — Kubernetes configuration file.
• -n, --namespace="" — Kubernetes namespace.
• -p, --port=0 — local port to listen to.
• --vklog=0 — a number for the log level verbosity. it's like the -v flag. ex: --vklog=9. yes, nine. go off, verbose queen 👑

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

okay here's the part where it shows off. literally just:

  istioctl dashboard prometheus

  # with short syntax
  istioctl dash prometheus
  istioctl d prometheus

so you can spell it all the way out, or shorten dashboard to dash or even just d — iykyk 😌 the short syntaxes are giving efficiency.

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• istioctl-dashboard(1)

go read the parent page too, bestie, it's the whole dashboard family 🫶

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heads up: these flags are literal — copy them exactly, don't get creative with them, and remember --address only takes an IP address or localhost. not me warning you twice 💀

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and that's the page!! 🎀 auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Jan 1980 — yes, Jan 1980, the manpage timestamps are always a little feral, we don't question it 🙈 and the page itself is ISTIOCTL-DASHBOARD-PROMETHEUS(1), if you needed the receipts. bye bestie, go look at some metrics 💖🌸