 of the services within the mesh).</p><p>For more information on which metrics are maintained, please refer to the <a href=/v1.12/docs/reference/commands/pilot-discovery/#metrics>reference documentation</a>.</p><h2 id=distributed-traces>Distributed traces</h2><p>Distributed tracing provides a way to monitor and understand behavior by monitoring individual requests as they flow through a mesh.
Traces empower mesh operators to understand service dependencies and the sources of latency within their service mes