Hidden Metrics Port?

Policies and Telemetry
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Istio document states there are 3 metrics endpoints
The configured Prometheus add-on scrapes three endpoints:

  1. istio-mesh ( istio-mixer.istio-system:42422 ): all Mixer-generated mesh metrics.
  2. mixer ( istio-mixer.istio-system:9093 ): all Mixer-specific metrics. Used to monitor Mixer itself.
  3. envoy ( istio-mixer.istio-system:9102 ): raw stats generated by Envoy (and translated from Statsd to Prometheus).

However in the istio mixer service and telemetry pod I was able to find only 2(42422 and 9093) . I even tried to expose 910 port in both deployment and service. But no metrics was coming on this port.

Is the document out of date? D we have to do something to get the envoy raw stats if required?
Does these stats provide any useful information that we cannot get from mesh and mixer stats?

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Which version of Istio are you using?

https://preliminary.istio.io/docs/tasks/telemetry/querying-metrics/ provides more up-to-date info.

The authoritative source for endpoints is the actual prom config itself: https://github.com/istio/istio/blob/43262a653a54c88fe06420e856c0a436510331cf/install/kubernetes/helm/subcharts/prometheus/templates/configmap.yaml#L12