The Consul web console is the GUI representation of Consul primitives such as services, nodes, and intentions. Let's take a look at it:
- Open a tab in your browser and open http://webconsole.consul.local to get a view of the services that have been discovered by Consul. You will see the total number of services that have been discovered and their health statuses:
Note that the Consul dashboard displays sidecar proxies as separate services, even for a Kubernetes environment.
- Click on the consul service. The Consul dashboard will show the status of the three consul servers running in a Kubernetes cluster:
