# HTTP support in Kuma
At its core, Kuma
distinguishes between 2 major categories of traffic: HTTP
traffic and opaque TCP
traffic.
It the former case, Kuma
can provide deep insights down to application-level transactions, in the latter case the observability is limited to connection-level statistics.
So, as a user of Kuma
, you're highly encouraged to give it a hint whether your service
supports HTTP
or not.
By doing this,
- you will get reacher metrics with
Traffic Metrics
policy - you will get reacher logs with
Traffic Log
policy - you will be able to use
Traffic Trace
policy
# HTTP/2 support
Kuma by default upgrades connection between Dataplanes to HTTP/2. If you want to enable HTTP/2 on connections between a dataplane and an application, use protocol: http2
tag.