istio.io/istio@v0.0.0-20240520182934-d79c90f27776/releasenotes/notes/tracing-canonical-service.yaml (about) 1 apiVersion: release-notes/v2 2 kind: feature 3 area: telemetry 4 issue: 5 - 28801 6 7 releaseNotes: 8 - | 9 **Added** canonical service tags to Envoy-generated trace spans. 10 upgradeNotes: 11 - title: Service Tags added to trace spans 12 content: | 13 Istio now configures Envoy to include tags identifying the canonical service for a workload in generated trace spans. 14 15 This will lead to a small increase in storage per span for tracing backends. 16 17 To disable these additional tags, modify the 'istiod' deployment to set an environment variable of `PILOT_ENABLE_ISTIO_TAGS=false`.