Connect Akto with Istio
If your API calls are being routed through Istio service mesh, you can use Akto's Istio filter to send traffic to Akto dashboard. Below guide will help you do this:

Creating AWS Policy
1. Go to Quick Start on your Akto dashboard and expand the Connect traffic data
section.

2. Scroll down to Data processors setup
section.

3. Copy the policy json
and click on the Akto Dashboard role link.

4. Click
on the JSON
tab and paste the policy

5. Click on Review policy
button.

6. Enter AktoDashboardPolicy
as the policy name and click
on Create Policy
button

8. Once the policy is created, go back to the dashboard
.
Setting up Data processors
1. Click on Setup traffic processors
button.
2. This will bring up infra that will process your traffic.
3. Check that you have AKTO_NLB
var once setup is complete.
Adding Akto traffic collector
Download the GitHub repo here and
cd
into it.Create your own Docker image of
istio-proxy
by running following commands:
docker build . -t <your-docker-account-id>:istio-proxy
docker push <your-docker-account-id>:istio-proxy
Add this custom istio-proxy image to containers you want to collect traffic from. You can get the value of
AKTO_NLB_IP
from the dashboard itself.
- name: istio-proxy
image: <your-docker-id>/istio-proxy:latest
env:
- name: AKTO_KAFKA_IP
# you will find this on your akto dashboard after you've deployed the Data-processing stack using Akto.
value: "<AKTO_NLB_IP>:9092"
Re-apply the config to restart all your pods with the added
istio-proxy
container.
kubectl apply -f <your-deployment-file>
Apply
akto-envoy-filter.yaml
to start capturing API calls and send to Akto dashboard.
kubectl apply -f akto-envoy-filter.yaml
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