feat(kiali): Reduce the Tokens consumption in resources details and lists

[aljesusg]

This is the first step of reduce the tokens in kiali toolsets.

📉 Resource Usage Reduction

This PR significantly optimizes the payload for several key views. Below is a breakdown of the token and character count reductions.

Resource	Metric	Before	After	% Reduction
Services List	Tokens	5,232	1,957	-62.6%
	Characters	20,351	7,508	-63.1%
Workload List	Tokens	11,167	1,469	-86.8%
	Characters	42,676	5,209	-87.8%
Service Detail	Tokens	3,223	301	-90.7%
(productpage)	Characters	12,466	952	-92.4%
Workload Detail	Tokens	1,924	331	-82.8%
(productpage-v1)	Characters	6,858	1,014	-85.2%

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Summary of Impact

• Total Token Savings: 17,488 tokens removed.
• Performance: Drastic reduction in data transfer and parsing overhead, particularly for Service Detail which saw a >90% decrease.

The idea is to adapt all tools output to this.

cc @josunect

[josunect]

LG!

The list services returns more reduced data:

[aljesusg]

Don't merge it please. Let me add more stuff here

[Cali0707]

@aljesusg are the eval scores staying steady with this token reduction?

[aljesusg]

Not, that result was from other tool. I am running the tool right now to check the improvement.

Anyway I want to add more stuff.

[aljesusg]

BTW how can we run the geval CI for kiali suite in the PR? I found that 2 tests are not working

[Cali0707]

BTW how can we run the geval CI for kiali suite in the PR? I found that 2 tests are not working

We seem to be having some issues with the keys set up in CI in this repo currently, otherwise anyone with write access could trigger the evals on this PR. I'll see if I can get that resolved soon and run them here, otherwise if you are able to run it locally and share the results that would also be interesting

Since they aren't cheap we are not running them by default...

[Cali0707]

/run-mcpchecker kiali

[github-actions]

mcpchecker MCP Evaluation Results

Commit: 2a821ca
Summary: 9/18 tasks passed (50.0%)

Metric	Result
Tasks Passed	9/18
Assertions Passed	51/51
Overall	❌ Failed

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[aljesusg]

Weird...it seems that kind cluster with kiali setup is not set before gevals run... maybe we should add some wait until...

[Cali0707]

Huh, the "install istio/kiali" step completed successfully, maybe we should add some status checks in that step to make sure everything comes ready?

[aljesusg]

Yes...let me check...I'll add a wait condition with a check in kubernetes before, it's hard to test actions without rights ^^ (I am not requesting them :))

[Cali0707]

I don't have the ability to give perms, but feel free to ping me to run things

[aljesusg]

Thanks !!!

[aljesusg]

Yes....I am seeing so yes we need to make some wait condition

{"errors":{"graph":"kiali client not initialized","health":"kiali client not initialized","mesh_status":"kiali client not initialized","namespaces":"kiali client not initialized"}}"

[matzew]

/run-mcpchecker kiali

I guess on downstream we can these more frequently /cc @mvinkler

[matzew]

/run-mcpchecker kiali

[github-actions]

mcpchecker MCP Evaluation Results

Commit: 2a821ca
Summary: 7/18 tasks passed (38.9%)

Metric	Result
Tasks Passed	7/18
Assertions Passed	51/51
Overall	❌ Failed

View full results

[aljesusg]

📉 Resource Usage Reduction

This PR significantly optimizes the payload for several key views. Below is a breakdown of the token and character count reductions.

Resource	Metric	Before	After	% Reduction
Services List	Tokens	5,232	1,957	-62.6%
	Characters	20,351	7,508	-63.1%
Workload List	Tokens	11,167	1,469	-86.8%
	Characters	42,676	5,209	-87.8%
Service Detail	Tokens	3,223	301	-90.7%
(productpage)	Characters	12,466	952	-92.4%
Workload Detail	Tokens	1,924	331	-82.8%
(productpage-v1)	Characters	6,858	1,014	-85.2%

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Summary of Impact

• Total Token Savings: 17,488 tokens removed.
• Performance: Drastic reduction in data transfer and parsing overhead, particularly for Service Detail which saw a >90% decrease.