ISTIOCTL-EXPERIMENTAL-ENVOY-STATS(1)

💅 istioctl-experimental-envoy-stats 💅

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for istioctl-experimental-envoy-stats, from the ISTIOCTL-EXPERIMENTAL-ENVOY-STATS(1) family of man pages — and literally all it does is go grab Envoy's metrics out of a pod for you. that's it. that's the whole vibe. and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

istioctl-experimental-envoy-stats — retrieves Envoy metrics in the specified pod. no cap, that's the entire job description. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

istioctl experimental envoy-stats [/][.] [flags]

like yes, the synopsis genuinely does look like that. [/][.] is real and you're gonna have to trust me on it. 💀

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so you point it at a pod, and it goes and retrieves the Envoy emitted metrics for that specified pod. that's the tea. that's the whole paragraph. she's concise, she's efficient, she ate. 👑

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -h, --help[=false] — help for envoy-stats. the classic. the moment you're lost, she's there. 🫶
• -o, --output="short" — output format, and it's gotta be one of json|yaml|short|prom|prom-merged. default is short, bestie. ✨
• --proxy-admin-port=15000 — the Envoy proxy admin port. defaults to 15000, noted. 🌸
• -l, --selector="" — label selector. empty by default, so specify it if you want it. 💅
• -t, --type="server" — where to grab the stats from: one of server|clusters. default is server. so you do get a choice, main character energy. ⭐

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these bad boys are handed down from the parent command — not this page's business, but they come with the package, so here they are in full:

• --as="" — username to impersonate for the operation. 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 to specify multiple groups. yes, repeat her. 💜
• --as-uid="" — UID to impersonate for the operation. 🔥
• --context="" — Kubernetes configuration context.
• -i, --istioNamespace="istio-system" — Istio system namespace. defaults to istio-system, cozy. 🧚
• --kubeclient-timeout="15s" — Kubernetes client timeout as a time.Duration string. defaults to 15 seconds. 🍓
• -c, --kubeconfig="" — Kubernetes configuration file.
• -n, --namespace="" — Kubernetes namespace.
• --vklog=0 — number for the log level verbosity. like the -v flag. ex: --vklog=9. go off, crank it. 🔊

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

okay this is the part where it gets good, because there are LITERALLY five examples and each one is a whole mood:

# Retrieve Envoy emitted metrics for the specified pod.
istioctl experimental envoy-stats <pod-name[.namespace]>

# Retrieve Envoy server metrics in prometheus format
istioctl experimental envoy-stats <pod-name[.namespace]> --output prom

# Retrieve Envoy server metrics in prometheus format with custom proxy admin port
istioctl experimental envoy-stats <pod-name[.namespace]> --output prom --proxy-admin-port 15000

# Retrieve Envoy server metrics in prometheus format with merged application metrics
istioctl experimental envoy-stats <pod-name[.namespace]> --output prom-merged

# Retrieve Envoy cluster metrics
istioctl experimental envoy-stats <pod-name[.namespace]> --type clusters

see how <pod-name[.namespace]> keeps showing up? that's the whole "specified pod" thing from the description, bestie. you're giving her a pod name, optionally dotted with a namespace. slay. 🫶

ngl, prom-merged is lowkey the sneaky star of the show — that's the one that gets you the Envoy server metrics with merged application metrics. iykyk. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

istioctl-experimental(1) — go read her too, she's the parent and she knows things. 🌟

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and that's the page!! 💖 fr fr, credit where it's due: this whole thing is auto generated by spf13/cobra, and the footer date on this copy reads Jan 198 (yes, really, it's cut off like that, don't come for me 😭). hope this helped bestie, go get those metrics 🎀✨