filter.</li><li>The new filters add ~5ms P90 latency at 1000 rps compared to Envoy proxies
configured with no telemetry filters.</li><li>If you only use the <code>istio-telemetry</code> service to generate service-level metrics,
you can switch off the <code>istio-telemetry</code> service. This could save up to ~0.5 vCPU per
1000 rps of mesh traffic, and could halve the CPU consumed by Istio while collecting
<a href=/v1.4/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/metrics/>standard metrics</a>.</li></ul><h2 