The Kiali MCP Server aims to provide Mesh Control Plane (MCP) functionality for Istio running on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
The first step is exposing Kiali features in MCP so that developers and operators can access observability, validations, and graph analysis directly from their MCP tooling or editors (e.g., Cursor).
Currently, only Istio object validations are available. This epic will track the work required to extend functionality, improve usability, and set the foundation for future MCP capabilities.

https://github.com/kiali/kiali-mcp-server

Demos

LightSpeed.

LightSpeed demo

Developer user . This user has not access to namespaces. Kiali will return empty responses.
Lightspeed-ossmc-mcp v0.5.0 developer user

Reader user . This user has access to namespaces. Kiali can't perform operational things like patch or delete.
Lightspeed-ossmc-mcp v0.5.0 read only user 

Admin user . This user has access to namespaces and can perform operations.
Lightspeed-ossmc-mcp v0.5.0 kubeadmin user