v><figcaption>Distributed Trace for a single request</figcaption></figure><h2 id=access-logs>Access logs</h2><p>Access logs provide a way to monitor and understand behavior from the perspective of an individual workload instance.</p><p>Istio can generate access logs for service traffic in a configurable set of formats, providing operators with full control of the how, what, when and where of
logging. For more information, please refer to <a href=/v1.12/docs/tasks/observability/logs/access-log/>Getting Envoy