ker threads</li><li>Protocol</li><li>CPU cores</li><li>Number and types of proxy filters, specifically telemetry v2 related filters.</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=cpu-and-memory>CPU and memory</h3><p>Since the sidecar proxy performs additional work on the data path, it consumes CPU
and memory. In Istio 1.20, a proxy consumes about 0.5 vCPU per 1000
requests per second.</p><p>The memory consumption 