Lightning Talk: A Practical Guide on How to Monitor and Compare Service Mesh...
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Demo compares sidecar, sidecar-less (Istio Ambient) and a baseline using Kubernetes running the Online Boutique app with Prometheus, node-exporter, cAdvisor and Grafana dashboards, and a 50‑service test on Google Cloud. Measurements show 11 GB vs 4–5 GB RAM when using sidecars, baseline and ambient without L7 cost roughly the same, ambient with layer‑7 functions adds about +8% while sidecars add about +36%. Dashboards and exact Prometheus queries are published for reproduction.
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