/v1.16/img/icons.svg#dropdown-arrow"/></svg></div></div><div class=faq-block-answer><p><p>If you already have installed Istio with tracing enabled, you can disable it as follows:</p><pre><code class=language-plain data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio># Fill &lt;istio namespace&gt; with the namespace of your istio mesh.Ex: istio-system
TRACING_POD=`kubectl get po -n &lt;istio namespace&gt; | grep istio-tracing | awk &#39;{print $1}&#39;`
$ kubectl delete pod $TRACING_POD -n &lt;istio namespace&gt;
$ kubectl