ASSESSMENT
Find where the mesh is costing you latency and capacity.
Istio Performance Assessment
Service mesh can improve reliability and security—or quietly tax every request. We assess your Istio (or Envoy-sidecar) footprint under real traffic patterns: latency budgets, resource burn, mTLS and telemetry cost, and control-plane health. You get evidence, not opinions: what to keep, what to tune, and what to simplify.
What you get
Clear deliverables and a practical handover—so your team can keep moving after the engagement.
Performance & cost baseline
Measured latency/resource impact, hotspots by namespace/service, and control-plane health notes.
Findings & risk ranking
What hurts most (sidecar scope, telemetry, retries, destination rules, gateways) with severity and effort.
Remediation roadmap
Prioritized changes, quick wins, and validation checks so your team can prove improvement.
Typical outcomes
- A clear picture of mesh-driven latency and resource overhead by workload
- Prioritized remediations (config, telemetry, sidecar scope, traffic policy)
- Guardrails so performance doesn’t regress after the next rollout
- A short roadmap your platform team can execute without a full mesh rewrite
How we work
A predictable flow that reduces risk, keeps stakeholders aligned, and delivers real progress fast.
01
Scope & access
Align on clusters, critical paths, SLOs, and safe read access to metrics and configs.
02
Measure
Baseline latency, resource use, and mesh config patterns against real traffic.
03
Diagnose
Trace overhead to specific policies, sidecars, and telemetry choices.
04
Recommend
Deliver ranked fixes, trade-offs, and a handover your team can own.
Good fit if…
- You’re already running Istio (or a sidecar mesh) in production on Kubernetes
- Latency, CPU, or memory cost rose after mesh adoption and nobody owns a deep dive
- Platform and app teams disagree on whether the mesh is “worth it”
- You want a time-boxed assessment with a concrete remediation backlog
Not ideal if…
- You haven’t adopted a mesh yet and only want a greenfield “should we use Istio?” workshop
- You need 24/7 managed mesh operations with no platform ownership on your side
FAQs
Quick answers to common questions about this service.
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