d=control-plane-metrics>Control plane metrics</h3><p>The Istio control plane also provides a collection of self-monitoring metrics. These metrics allow monitoring of the behavior
of Istio itself (as distinct from that of the services within the mesh).</p><p>For more information on which metrics are maintained, please refer to the <a href=/v1.15/docs/reference/commands/pilot-discovery/#metrics>reference documentation</a>.</p><h2 id=distributed-traces>Distributed traces</h2><p>Distributed tracing provides a w