{"id":46634,"date":"2022-02-18T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/?p=46634"},"modified":"2022-02-17T19:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:14:56","slug":"sd-times-open-source-project-of-the-week-mizu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/softwaredev\/sd-times-open-source-project-of-the-week-mizu\/","title":{"rendered":"SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Mizu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/up9inc\/mizu\">Mizu<\/a> is an API traffic viewer for Kubernetes that enables users to view all API communication between microservices to help debug and troubleshoot regressions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cViewing API traffic between microservices is essential if you want to understand the root cause of problems found in complex distributed systems,\u201d Alex Haiut, the co-founder and vice president of engineering at UP9, the company behind the project, wrote in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/up9.com\/traffic-viewer-kubernetes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blog post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThrough our efforts to observe API traffic between microservices, we were able to isolate a chunk of our technology and package it as an open source project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users can easily view traffic in the same way that they can use Google Chrome Dev Tool to view the traffic of their webapps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tool works by injecting a container that performs a tcpdump-like operation at the node level of a Kubernetes cluster. 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