Common Problems

While working with istio there are a few problems that can be encountered ranging from TLS configuration mistakes to routing rules not affecting traffic flow and a host of other issues.

Some of the common issies are documented below:

• Traffic Management Problems
• Security Problems
• Sidecar injection problems
• Configuration Validation problems

In addition to the common problems , the istio documentation provides a diagnostics tool page, which provides various command line tools and techniques for debugging your istio mesh.

The following are also some additional external links that can help in debugging.

Additional links

• Istio Debugging
• Debugging Istio within the Department of Defense
• How to debug your Istio networking configuration
• What to do when your service mesh goes down in production

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Last update: 2021-09-30 by Ryan Garcia