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Observing the Canary Deployment

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Christopher Adamson
Jul 25, 2025
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Monitoring and observing your canary deployment is critical for ensuring that the new version behaves as expected before fully rolling it out. Istio provides powerful tools for traffic monitoring, service performance analysis, and error tracking. In this part, you’ll learn how to observe your canary deployment using Istio’s built-in telemetry features and ensure that traffic is correctly split between the stable and canary versions of your application.

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