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    These docs use the Kubernetes Gateway API to manage your service mesh. To manage your sidecar service mesh with Gloo Mesh Enterprise APIs instead, see the Gloo Mesh Enterprise docs.

    Customize the pipeline

    Set up additional pipeline receivers, processors, and exporters.

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    Add Istio request traces

    Add request traces to your Gloo telemetry pipeline to observe traffic requests in Jaeger.

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    Add Istio insights

    Add Istio insights to the Gloo telemetry pipeline.

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    Collect compute instance metadata

    Allow OTel collector agents to gather metadata about the compute instances that the workload cluster …

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    Forward metrics to Datadog

    Set up an extra exporter to forward metrics to your Datadog instance.

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    Forward metrics to OpenShift

    Forward the metrics from the Gloo telemetry gateway and collector agents to the OpenShift …

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    Enable logs

    Enable logs for Gloo components so that you can review them in the Gloo UI.

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