Service mesh monitoring with infrastructure awareness

A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing program instructions that cause a device to execute a process comprising:

• parsing, as a service mesh manager associated with a control plane of a service mesh, a package manager chart to learn a plurality of cloud resources within the service mesh that are associated with a given application, thereby making the service mesh manager application-aware for the given application;
• monitoring performance metrics for each individual resource for the plurality of cloud resources;
• aggregating the performance metrics for each individual resource into an overall performance level of the given application;
• and
• generating a holistic health report of the overall performance level of the given application that is further indicative of the performance metrics for each individual resource.

An apparatus, comprising:

• one or more network interfaces to communicate with a network;
• a processor coupled to the one or more network interfaces and configured to execute one or more processes;
• and
• a memory configured to store a service mesh manager process associated with a control plane of a service mesh that is executable by the processor, the service mesh manager process comprising:
• parsing a package manager chart to learn a plurality of cloud resources within the service mesh that are associated with a given application, thereby making the service mesh manager application-aware for the given application;
• monitoring performance metrics for each individual resource for the plurality of cloud resources;
• aggregating the performance metrics for each individual resource into an overall performance level of the given application;
• and
• generating a holistic health report of the overall performance level of the given application that is further indicative of the performance metrics for each individual resource.