Behavior of istio-gateway vs GRPC stream

Networking
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I have a simple chat service using gRPC streaming feature. It work OK when client connect directly to server, each client acquire 1 connection to the service.

Now I’m trying to public that chat service using istio-gateway, will the gateway establish new connection to chat service connection for each client connection?

Also, how can I observe the number of connection from gateway to the backend service?

Thanks!

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Consider setting DestinationRule with some traffic policies. Not sure the exact settings but might make a difference for streaming.