Explore the UI

From the default collapsed view, you can see the number of clusters, namespaces, and gateways in a card for each workspace.

Actions you can take:

• Click the expand icon (∧) to expand the card. You see more information about the imported and exported resources, destinations, and policies.
• Click MORE DETAILS ∨ to jump to the workspace details page for that workspace.

About the counts:

• The details are taken from the Workspace custom resource status, which you can check in the CLI by running kubectl get workspace -n gloo-mesh -o yaml.
• Resource counts include imported resources. For example, the total count of destinations includes Kubernetes services in your workspace, plus all Kubernetes services that your workspace imports.
• To check imported resources, you might use labels. Labels are used to import and export resources. Your platform admin can tell you if a particular label is used, such as exported: true. Then, you can check all resources for this label, such as in the terminal by running kubectl get services -A -l exported=true.

From the default collapsed view, you can see the region, Kubernetes version, and, if you use Gloo Network, the Cilium version in a card for each cluster. Each cluster must be registered with Gloo Platform via the KubernetesCluster custom resource.

Actions you can take:

• Click the expand icon (∧) to expand the card. You see more information about the Kubernetes resource configuration and compute hardware of the cluster.
• Click MORE DETAILS ∨ to jump to the cluster details page for that cluster.

• Animations: Change the paths between nodes from a directional animation to a solid line.
• Group By: In view 1, toggle the architectural layout between CLUSTER and WORKSPACE.
  • CLUSTER: Review the clusters and Kubernetes namespaces that your app nodes are organized in. For example, you might want to focus on reviewing multicluster traffic failover by toggling this view.
  • WORKSPACE: Review the Gloo workspaces that your app nodes are organized in. For example, you might want to focus reviewing traffic across each of your team's workspaces.
• Mutual TLS: If you use Gloo Mesh Enterprise, toggle the lock or unlock icons along paths between nodes. For example, if all your workspaces enable service isolation, then all traffic is secured via mTLS. Thus, you might not want to see the lock icons.
• TCP: Review TCP traffic.
• Cilium: If you use Gloo Network, toggle on or off the network graph for connections enabled by the Cilium CNI.

Nodes represent the application “nodes” of the graph. (Note that nodes represent your apps, not Kubernetes compute nodes.) You can toggle on and off views for the following nodes:

• Kubernetes services
• External services
• Gateways

Toggle on or off idle nodes, which are nodes that do not receive traffic.

In the Search bar, filter the services that you want to see in the graph. You can choose to include or hide those services.

From the Traffic dropdown, select the range of time that you want the graph to show, such as traffic from the last 15 minutes.

From the Refresh dropdown, select how often you want the graph to refresh the data, such as every 5 seconds. You can also refresh on demand by clicking REFRESH.

After the header toolbar, you can filter what the graph shows by workspace, namespace, and cluster. Filters work like the logical operator AND, so results must meet all the criteria. For example, if you filter by bookinfo workspace, bookinfo namespace, and cluster1, then the graph shows services that meet all these criteria.

Toggle Errors Only to see services that experienced traffic errors during the traffic time range you selected from the header toolbar.

Within the graph views, you can navigate by clicking and dragging whitespace within the main canvas, or by using the navigation arrow buttons, as shown in the following figure.

After the header toolbar, filter, and main canvas, you can choose more viewing options in the footer toolbar.

#	Icon name	Description
1	Fullscreen	Click to expand your browser to fullscreen. Click again or enter ESC to return to the normal screen size.
2	Zoom in and out	Zoom in or out on the main view's canvas. Depending on your mouse settings, you can also scroll to zoom in and out.
3	Fit to canvas	Click to center and fit the content of the current view to the canvas size. This action might be helpful if you rearranged the nodes and zoomed in.
4	Networking graph views	Click one of the networking graph views to change how the nodes are displayed in the main canvas. For more information, see Networking views.
5	View legend	Open the graph legend. For more information, see Legend.
6	Layout settings	Open the graph layout settings. For more information, see Layout settings.

Show an architectural view of your app nodes in the main canvas area of the graph. This view organizes the app nodes by the Gloo workspace, Kubernetes namespace, and cluster that you filter for.

To rearrange nodes, click and drag. In this view, your changes are cached so that the canvas setup stays similar when you return to the page. For information on the edge paths, node states, locks, and more, see the Legend tab.

Show a simple view of the app nodes in your environment. Nodes are grouped together in close proximity. This view does not show workspace, namespace, or cluster boundaries. However, those boundaries are still used to show or hide out nodes based on your filters.

To rearrange nodes, click and drag. Note that in this view, your changes are NOT cached. For information on the edge paths, node states, locks, and more, see the Legend tab.

Show a simple view of the app nodes in your environment. Nodes are organized into a vertical chain layout. This view does not show workspace, namespace, or cluster boundaries. However, those boundaries are still used to show or hide out nodes based on your filters.

To rearrange nodes, click and drag. Note that in this view, your changes are NOT cached. For information on the edge paths, node states, locks, and more, see the Legend tab.