</p><p>If the Istio Dashboard or the Prometheus queries don’t show the expected metrics, any step of the flow above may present an issue. The following sections provide instructions to troubleshoot each step.</p><h4 id=verify-istio-cni-pods-are-running-if-used>Verify Istio CNI pods are running (if used)</h4><p>The Istio CNI plugin performs the Istio mesh pod traffic redirection in the Kubernetes pod lifecycle’s network setup phase, thereby removing the <a href=/v1.7/docs/ops/deployment/requirements/>req