er case, having visibility into this
traffic via telemetry is quite helpful as it enables you to create alerts and
dashboards, and better reason about your security posture. This was a highly
requested feature by production users of Istio and we are excited that the
support for this was added in release 1.3.</p><p>To implement this, the Istio <a href=https://istio.io/v1.6/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/metrics>default
metrics</a> are augmented with
explicit labels to capture blocked and passthro