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<p>Istio Pilot agent runs in the sidecar or gateway container and bootstraps Envoy.</p>
<table class="command-flags">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Flags</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_as_json</code></td>
<td>Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_caller &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, default, model, rbac]  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_output_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:info`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_age &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_backups &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_size &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_stacktrace_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope:level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:none`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_target &lt;stringArray&gt;</code></td>
<td>The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="pilot-agent-proxy">pilot-agent proxy</h2>
<p>Envoy proxy agent</p>
<pre class="language-bash"><code>pilot-agent proxy [flags]
</code></pre>
<table class="command-flags">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Flags</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>--applicationPorts &lt;stringSlice&gt;</code></td>
<td>Ports exposed by the application. Used to determine that Envoy is configured and ready to receive traffic.  (default `[]`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--binaryPath &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Path to the proxy binary  (default `/usr/local/bin/envoy`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--concurrency &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>number of worker threads to run  (default `0`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--configPath &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Path to the generated configuration file directory  (default `/etc/istio/proxy`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--connectTimeout &lt;duration&gt;</code></td>
<td>Connection timeout used by Envoy for supporting services  (default `1s`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--controlPlaneAuthPolicy &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Control Plane Authentication Policy  (default `NONE`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--controlPlaneBootstrap</code></td>
<td>Process bootstrap provided via templateFile to be used by control plane components. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--customConfigFile &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Path to the custom configuration file  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--datadogAgentAddress &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Address of the Datadog Agent  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--disableInternalTelemetry</code></td>
<td>Disable internal telemetry </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--discoveryAddress &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Address of the discovery service exposing xDS (e.g. istio-pilot:8080)  (default `istio-pilot:15010`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--dnsRefreshRate &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The dns_refresh_rate for bootstrap STRICT_DNS clusters  (default `300s`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--domain &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>DNS domain suffix. If not provided uses ${POD_NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--drainDuration &lt;duration&gt;</code></td>
<td>The time in seconds that Envoy will drain connections during a hot restart  (default `45s`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--envoyAccessLogServiceAddress &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Host and Port of an Envoy gRPC Access Log Service API implementation (e.g. accesslog-service.istio-system:15000)  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--envoyMetricsServiceAddress &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Host and Port of an Envoy Metrics Service API implementation (e.g. metrics-service:15000)  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--id &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Proxy unique ID. If not provided uses ${POD_NAME}.${POD_NAMESPACE} from environment variables  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--ip &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Proxy IP address. If not provided uses ${INSTANCE_IP} environment variable.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--lightstepAccessToken &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Access Token for LightStep Satellite pool  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--lightstepAddress &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Address of the LightStep Satellite pool  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--lightstepCacertPath &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Path to the trusted cacert used to authenticate the pool  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--lightstepSecure</code></td>
<td>Should connection to the LightStep Satellite pool be secure </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_as_json</code></td>
<td>Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_caller &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, default, model, rbac]  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_output_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:info`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_age &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_backups &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_size &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_stacktrace_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope:level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:none`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_target &lt;stringArray&gt;</code></td>
<td>The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--mixerIdentity &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The identity used as the suffix for mixer&#39;s spiffe SAN. This would only be used by pilot all other proxy would get this value from pilot  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--parentShutdownDuration &lt;duration&gt;</code></td>
<td>The time in seconds that Envoy will wait before shutting down the parent process during a hot restart  (default `1m0s`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--pilotIdentity &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The identity used as the suffix for pilot&#39;s spiffe SAN   (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--proxyAdminPort &lt;uint16&gt;</code></td>
<td>Port on which Envoy should listen for administrative commands  (default `15000`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--proxyComponentLogLevel &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The component log level used to start the Envoy proxy  (default `misc:error`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--proxyLogLevel &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The log level used to start the Envoy proxy (choose from {trace, debug, info, warning, error, critical, off})  (default `warning`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--serviceCluster &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Service cluster  (default `istio-proxy`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--serviceregistry &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Select the platform for service registry, options are {Kubernetes, Consul, Mock}  (default `Kubernetes`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--statsdUdpAddress &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>IP Address and Port of a statsd UDP listener (e.g. 10.75.241.127:9125)  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--statusPort &lt;uint16&gt;</code></td>
<td>HTTP Port on which to serve pilot agent status. If zero, agent status will not be provided.  (default `0`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--templateFile &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Go template bootstrap config  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--trust-domain &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The domain to use for identities  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--zipkinAddress &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Address of the Zipkin service (e.g. zipkin:9411)  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="pilot-agent-request">pilot-agent request</h2>
<p>Makes an HTTP request to the Envoy admin API</p>
<pre class="language-bash"><code>pilot-agent request &lt;method&gt; &lt;path&gt; [&lt;body&gt;] [flags]
</code></pre>
<table class="command-flags">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Flags</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_as_json</code></td>
<td>Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_caller &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, default, model, rbac]  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_output_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:info`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_age &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_backups &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_size &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_stacktrace_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope:level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:none`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_target &lt;stringArray&gt;</code></td>
<td>The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="pilot-agent-version">pilot-agent version</h2>
<p>Prints out build version information</p>
<pre class="language-bash"><code>pilot-agent version [flags]
</code></pre>
<table class="command-flags">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Flags</th>
<th>Shorthand</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_as_json</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_caller &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, default, model, rbac]  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_output_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:info`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_age &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_backups &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_size &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_stacktrace_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope:level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, model, rbac] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:none`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_target &lt;stringArray&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--output &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td><code>-o</code></td>
<td>One of &#39;yaml&#39; or &#39;json&#39;.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--short</code></td>
<td><code>-s</code></td>
<td>Use --short=false to generate full version information </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="envvars">Environment variables</h2>
These environment variables affect the behavior of the <code>pilot-agent</code> command.
<table class="envvars">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Variable Name</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Default Value</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>INSTANCE_IP</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_BOOTSTRAP</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_BOOTSTRAP_OVERRIDE</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_GPRC_MAXSTREAMS</code></td>
<td>Integer</td>
<td><code>100000</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_KUBE_APP_PROBERS</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_META_TLS_CLIENT_CERT_CHAIN</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code>/etc/certs/cert-chain.pem</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_META_TLS_CLIENT_KEY</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code>/etc/certs/key.pem</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_META_TLS_CLIENT_ROOT_CERT</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code>/etc/certs/root-cert.pem</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_META_TLS_SERVER_CERT_CHAIN</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code>/etc/certs/cert-chain.pem</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_META_TLS_SERVER_KEY</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code>/etc/certs/key.pem</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_META_TLS_SERVER_ROOT_CERT</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code>/etc/certs/root-cert.pem</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>ISTIO_NAMESPACE</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_CERT_DIR</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_DEBOUNCE_AFTER</code></td>
<td>Time Duration</td>
<td><code>100ms</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_DEBOUNCE_MAX</code></td>
<td>Time Duration</td>
<td><code>10s</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_DEBUG_ADSZ_CONFIG</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_DISABLE_EDS_ISOLATION</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_DISABLE_EMPTY_ROUTE_RESPONSE</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>DisableEmptyRouteResponse provides an option to disable a partial route response. This will cause Pilot to ignore a route request if Pilot generates a nil route (due to an error). This may cause Envoy to wait forever for the route, blocking listeners from receiving traffic. The default behavior (without this flag set) is to explicitly send an empty route. This will break routing for that particular route, but allow others on the same listener to work.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_DISABLE_PARTIAL_ROUTE_RESPONSE</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>DisablePartialRouteResponse provides an option to disable a partial route response. This will cause Pilot to send an error if any routes are invalid. The default behavior (without this flag) is to just skip the invalid route.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_DISABLE_XDS_MARSHALING_TO_ANY</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_ENABLE_FALLTHROUGH_ROUTE</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
<td>EnableFallthroughRoute provides an option to add a final wildcard match for routes. When ALLOW_ANY traffic policy is used, a Passthrough cluster is used. When REGISTRY_ONLY traffic policy is used, a 502 error is returned.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_ENABLE_LOCALITY_LOAD_BALANCING</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_ENABLE_MYSQL_FILTER</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>EnableMysqlFilter enables injection of `envoy.filters.network.mysql_proxy` in the filter chain.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_ENABLE_REDIS_FILTER</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>EnableRedisFilter enables injection of `envoy.filters.network.redis_proxy` in the filter chain.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_ENABLE_WAIT_CACHE_SYNC</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_HTTP10</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_INITIAL_FETCH_TIMEOUT</code></td>
<td>Time Duration</td>
<td><code>0s</code></td>
<td>Specifies the initial_fetch_timeout for config. If this time is reached without a response to the config requested by Envoy, the Envoy will move on with the init phase. This prevents envoy from getting stuck waiting on config during startup.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_PUSH_BURST</code></td>
<td>Integer</td>
<td><code>100</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_PUSH_THROTTLE</code></td>
<td>Integer</td>
<td><code>10</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_SIDECAR_USE_REMOTE_ADDRESS</code></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>UseRemoteAddress sets useRemoteAddress to true for side car outbound listeners.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>PILOT_TRACE_SAMPLING</code></td>
<td>Floating-Point</td>
<td><code>100</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>POD_NAME</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>POD_NAMESPACE</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>TERMINATION_DRAIN_DURATION_SECONDS</code></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>V2_REFRESH</code></td>
<td>Time Duration</td>
<td><code>0s</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="annotations">Annotations</h2>
These resource annotations are used by the <code>pilot-agent</code> command.
<table class="annotations">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Annotation Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>policy.istio.io/check</code></td>
<td>Determines the policy for behavior when unable to connect to Mixer. If not set, FAIL_CLOSE is set, rejecting requests.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>policy.istio.io/checkBaseRetryWaitTime</code></td>
<td>Base time to wait between retries, will be adjusted by backoff and jitter. In duration format. If not set, this will be 80ms.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>policy.istio.io/checkMaxRetryWaitTime</code></td>
<td>Maximum time to wait between retries to Mixer. In duration format. If not set, this will be 1000ms.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>policy.istio.io/checkRetries</code></td>
<td>The maximum number of retries on transport errors to Mixer. If not set, this will be 0, indicating no retries.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>sidecar.istio.io/statsInclusionPrefixes</code></td>
<td>Specifies the comma separated list of prefixes of the stats to be emitted by Envoy.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>sidecar.istio.io/statsInclusionRegexps</code></td>
<td>Specifies the comma separated list of regexes the stats should match to be emitted by Envoy.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>sidecar.istio.io/statsInclusionSuffixes</code></td>
<td>Specifies the comma separated list of suffixes of the stats to be emitted by Envoy.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="metrics">Exported metrics</h2>
<table class="metrics">
<thead>
<tr><th>Metric Name</th><th>Type</th><th>Description</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td><code>endpoint_no_pod</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Endpoints without an associated pod.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_conflict_inbound_listener</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Number of conflicting inbound listeners.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_conflict_outbound_listener_http_over_current_tcp</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Number of conflicting wildcard http listeners with current wildcard tcp listener.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_conflict_outbound_listener_tcp_over_current_http</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Number of conflicting wildcard tcp listeners with current wildcard http listener.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_conflict_outbound_listener_tcp_over_current_tcp</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Number of conflicting tcp listeners with current tcp listener.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_destrule_subsets</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Duplicate subsets across destination rules for same host</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_discovery_calls</code></td><td><code>Sum</code></td><td>Individual method calls in Pilot</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_discovery_errors</code></td><td><code>Sum</code></td><td>Errors encountered during a given method call within Pilot</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_discovery_resources</code></td><td><code>Distribution</code></td><td>Returned resource counts per method by Pilot</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_duplicate_envoy_clusters</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Duplicate envoy clusters caused by service entries with same hostname</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_eds_no_instances</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Number of clusters without instances.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_endpoint_not_ready</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Endpoint found in unready state.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_no_ip</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Pods not found in the endpoint table, possibly invalid.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_total_rejected_configs</code></td><td><code>Sum</code></td><td>Total number of configs that Pilot had to reject or ignore.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>pilot_vservice_dup_domain</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Virtual services with dup domains.</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>