Set up Cilium Hubble for eBPF-based network flow observability and query flows via the Hubble CLI and UI

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Steps

  1. Enable Hubble in the Cilium Helm chart by setting hubble.enabled=true and hubble.relay.enabled=true
  2. Port-forward the Hubble relay service and install the hubble CLI, then run hubble observe to stream live network flows
  3. Filter flows by namespace, pod label, or verdict using --namespace, --label, and --verdict flags on hubble observe
  4. Enable Hubble UI by setting hubble.ui.enabled=true and access it via port-forward to inspect flows visually
  5. Configure Hubble metrics export to Prometheus by setting hubble.metrics.enabled with a list of metric names such as dns, drop, tcp, flow

Known gotchas

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