iented metrics for monitoring service communications. These metrics cover the four
basic service monitoring needs: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation. Istio ships with a default set of
<a href=/v1.12/docs/tasks/observability/metrics/using-istio-dashboard/>dashboards</a> for monitoring service behaviors based on these metrics.</p><p>The <a href=/v1.12/docs/reference/config/metrics/>standard Istio metrics</a> are
exported to <a href=/v1.12/docs/ops/integrations/prometheus/>Prometheus</a> by default.</p>