y/templates/config.yaml>here</a>
under the section with &ldquo;kind: metric”. It uses <a href=/v1.6/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/metric/>metric
template</a> to define these metrics.</p><p>We will describe metrics first and then the labels for each metric.</p><h2 id=metrics>Metrics</h2><p>For HTTP, HTTP/2, and GRPC traffic, Istio generates the following metrics:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Request Count</strong> (<code>istio_requests_total</code>): This is a <code>COUNTER</code> increment