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title: Adapters
description: Mixer adapters allow Istio to interface to a variety of infrastructure backends for such things as metrics and logs.
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type: section-index
aliases:
    - /docs/reference/config/mixer/adapters/index.html
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To implement a new adapter for Mixer, please refer to the
[Adapter Developer's Guide](https://github.com/istio/istio/wiki/Mixer-Adapter-Dev-Guide).
