igate.</p><h2 id=better-observability>Better observability</h2><p>We continue to invest in making Istio the best way to understand your
distributed applications. Telemetry v2 now reports metrics for raw TCP
connections (in addition to HTTP), and we’ve enhanced the support for gRPC
workloads by adding response status codes in telemetry and logs. Telemetry v2
is now used by default.</p><p>The new telemetry system cuts latency in half - 90th percentile latency has been
reduced from 7ms to 3.3 ms. Not only th