 delete services tracing zipkin   -n &lt;istio namespace&gt;
# Now, manually remove instances of trace_zipkin_url from the file and save it.
</code></pre><p>Then follow the steps of the <a href=/v1.16/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/zipkin/#cleanup>cleanup section of the Distributed Tracing task</a>.</p><p>If you don’t want tracing functionality at all, then <a href=/v1.16/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/zipkin/#before-you-begin>disable tracing</a> when installing Istio.</p></p><