Service Profiles

A service profile is a custom Kubernetes resource (CRD) that can provideLinkerd additional information about a service. In particular, it allows you todefine a list of routes for the service. Each route uses a regular expressionto define which paths should match that route. Defining a service profileenables Linkerd to report per-route metrics and also allows you to enableper-route features such as retries and timeouts.

To get started with service profiles you can:

• Look into setting up service profilesfor your own services.
• Understand what is required to seeper-route metrics.
• Configure retries on your own services.
• Configure timeouts on your own services.
• Glance at the reference documentation.