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title: Why do I see 'istio-mixer' spans in some of my distributed traces?
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Mixer generates application-level traces for requests that reach Mixer with tracing headers. Mixer generates spans, labeled 'istio-mixer' for any critical work that it does, including dispatch to individual adapters.
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Envoy caches calls to Mixer on the data path. As a result, calls out to Mixer made via the istio-policy service only happen for certain requests, for example: cache-expiry or different request characteristics. For this reason, you only see Mixer participate in *some* of your traces.
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To turn off the application-level trace spans for Mixer itself, you must edit the deployment configuration for `istio-policy` and remove the `--trace_zipkin_url` command-line parameter. |