ervices and applications. Without requiring changes to the underlying services, Istio provides automated baseline traffic resilience, service metrics collection, distributed tracing, traffic encryption, protocol upgrades, and advanced routing functionality for all service-to-service communication.</p><p>For more detail, please see <a href=/v1.16/about/service-mesh/>The Istio service mesh</a></p></p></div></div><div class="faq-block faq-block--collapsed" id=why-use-istio><div class=faq-block-question><span c