Understanding Service Mesh Metric Merging

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Explains how Istio exposes a single scrape endpoint that returns metrics merged from the application, Envoy sidecar and Istio agent so Prometheus gets a unified document rather than three scrapes. Uses Prometheus with Kubernetes service discovery and pod annotations (prometheus.io port 8080 path /), injection rewrites those annotations to port 15020 and path /* while storing originals so the agent can fetch app metrics, then scrapes Envoy and adds its own metrics. Notes limitations: no mTLS on that endpoint and it breaks annotation-less setups like Prometheus Operator.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:18Monitoring via metrics
3. 3:11Service Mesh
4. 4:00Metrics in Istio
5. 4:56Metrics merging
6. 7:28Considerations
7. 8:38Alternative Solutions

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