rocess adds to the queue wait time of the next request and affects
average and tail latencies. The actual tail latency depends on the traffic pattern.</p><h3 id=latency-for-istio-120>Latency for Istio 1.20</h3><p>Inside the mesh, a request traverses the client-side proxy and then the server-side
proxy. In the default configuration of Istio 1.20.3 (i.e. Istio with telemetry v2),
the two proxies add about 0.228 ms and 0.298 ms to the 90th and 99th percentile latency, respectively, over the baseline data plane