EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
prometheus   ClusterIP   10.8.4.109   &lt;none&gt;        9090/TCP   20h
</code></pre><h2 id=configure-prometheus-federation>Configure Prometheus federation</h2><h3 id=external-production-prometheus>External production Prometheus</h3><p>There are several reasons why you may want to have a Prometheus instance running outside of your Istio deployment.
Perhaps you want long-term monitoring disjoint from the cluster being monitored. Perhaps you want to monitor multiple
separate mesh