metry filters (logging, tracing, and metrics) are known to have a moderate impact.</li></ul><p>The latency, throughput, and the proxies&rsquo; CPU and memory consumption are measured as a function of said factors.</p><h3 id=sidecar-cpu-and-memory-usage>Sidecar CPU and memory usage</h3><p>Since the sidecar proxy performs additional work on the data path, it consumes CPU
and memory. In Istio 1.22, a sidecar proxy consumes about 0.5 vCPU per 1000
requests per second.</p><p>The memory consumption of the proxy d