impact of your short-lived metrics on Prometheus, you must first identify the high cardinality metrics and labels. Prometheus provides cardinality information at its <code>/status</code> page. Additional information can be retrieved <a href=https://www.robustperception.io/which-are-my-biggest-metrics>via PromQL</a>.
There are several ways to reduce the cardinality of Istio metrics:</p><ul><li>Disable host header fallback.
The <code>destination_service</code> label is one potential source of high-cardinality