</p></li></ul><h2 id=policies-and-telemetry>Policies and telemetry</h2><ul><li><p><strong>Policy Checks Off By Default</strong>. Changed policy checks to be turned off by
default to improve performance for most customer scenarios. <a href=/v1.7/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/enabling-policy/>Enabling Policy Enforcement</a>
details how to turn on Istio policy checks, if needed.</p></li><li><p><strong>Kiali</strong>. Replaced the <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/9066>Service Graph addon</a>
with <