ISTIOCTL-DASHBOARD-SKYWALKING(1)

📦 version 1.31.3, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

✨ istioctl-dashboard-skywalking(1) ✨

okay so bestie, picture this: you've got SkyWalking running, you've got Istio doing its thing, and now you want to actually look at it with your eyeballs 👀. That's this page — section 1 of the manual, command istioctl-dashboard-skywalking, and it's giving "open the SkyWalking UI" energy. Let's go 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

istioctl dashboard skywalking [flags]

that's the whole shape of it. istioctl → dashboard → skywalking, plus whatever flags you feel like sprinkling on top 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Open the Istio dashboard in the SkyWalking UI. literally that's the job. you run it, the SkyWalking UI for the Istio dashboard pops open, you vibe, you observe your mesh. iconic behavior fr fr 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for skywalking. asks for help, receives help. simple as that 🫶
  • --ui-port=8080 — The component dashboard UI port. defaults to 8080, which is a very normal and correct number and not at all suspicious 🍓

🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these didn't come from this command, they're hand-me-downs from the parent commands, and they all still work here 👑

  • --address="localhost" — Address to listen on. Only accepts IP address or localhost as a value. When localhost is supplied, istioctl will try to bind on both 127.0.0.1 and ::1 and will fail if neither of these address are available to bind. so like. it wants both the v4 and the v6 and it will absolutely throw hands if neither cooperates 😭
  • --as="" — Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace. no cap, you can be anybody ✨
  • --as-group=[] — Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups. stack 'em up 🎀
  • --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 a no-browser gremlin, this is your flag 🙈
  • --context="" — Kubernetes configuration context. you know, the kube context. the one you're always forgetting to switch 💀
  • -i, --istioNamespace="istio-system" — Istio system namespace. defaults to the classic istio-system 👑
  • --kubeclient-timeout="15s" — Kubernetes client timeout as a time.Duration string, defaults to 15 seconds.
  • -c, --kubeconfig="" — Kubernetes configuration file.
  • -n, --namespace="" — Kubernetes namespace.
  • -p, --port=0 — Local port to listen to. zero means "you pick, bestie" 🧚
  • --vklog=0 — number for the log level verbosity. Like -v flag. ex: --vklog=9. yes, nine. go off, verbose icon 🔥

💜 EXAMPLE 💜

the canonical run, exactly as written:

istioctl dashboard skywalking

and now the short syntax, because we love a shortcut:

# with short syntax
istioctl dash skywalking
istioctl d skywalking

dash and d are the same thing, just with fewer letters and more attitude 💅

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

heads up bestie: nothing here is deprecated or dangerous, it's just a UI opener. the only thing that'll fail on you is --address="localhost" if neither 127.0.0.1 nor ::1 can be bound. so like. plan accordingly 😭

🎀 that's the whole page! this beauty was Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Jan 1980 — yes, 1980, she's vintage, she's a time traveler, she's iconic, and she's still opening dashboards for you to this day. k bye, go look at your mesh! ✨🦋💖

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