h.</p><p>Istio supports distributed tracing through the Envoy proxies. The proxies automatically generate trace spans on behalf of the applications they proxy,
requiring only that the applications forward the appropriate request context.</p><p>Istio supports a number of tracing backends, including <a href=/v1.12/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/zipkin/>Zipkin</a>,
<a href=/v1.12/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/jaeger/>Jaeger</a>, <a href=/v1.12/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-t