ues/47489>Issue #47489</a>)</p></li><li><p><strong>Added</strong> an environment variable <code>METRICS_LOCALHOST_ACCESS_ONLY</code> for disabling metrics endpoint from outside of the pod, to allow only localhost access. User can set this with command arguments
<code>--set values.pilot.env.METRICS_LOCALHOST_ACCESS_ONLY=true</code> for control plane and <code>--set meshConfig.defaultConfig.proxyMetadata.METRICS_LOCALHOST_ACCESS_ONLY=true</code> for proxy during <code>istioctl</code> installation.</p></li><li