h2 id=key-istio-concepts>Key Istio Concepts</h2><p>When attempting to understand, monitor or troubleshoot the networking within
an Istio deployment it is critical to understand the fundamental Istio
concepts starting with the service mesh. The service mesh is described
in <a href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/#architecture>Architecture</a>. As noted
in the architecture section Istio has a distinct control plane and a data
plane and operationally it will be important to be able to monitor the
network sta