HOWTO enable access logs in Istio when using istio-cni in EKS

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Hi, we have Istio 1.8.1 running in EKS using ArgoCD. We have the following applications set up (by a previous employee who has since left):

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We’re trying to debug an issue where one application is returning 503 and I’d like to enable the access logs. I thought it might be possible to set the accessLogFile config via one of helm charts we’re using, but can’t see the option in any of the values.yaml files.

I tried setting the following for the istio-ingress applications but this hasn’t worked. The values.yaml has a meshConfig property but doesn’t mention accessLogFile so I’m not sure if that means it’s not supported there:

meshConfig:
          accessLogFile: /dev/stdout

Can anyone advise how to enable access logging please?

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Thanks to @nrjpoddar (via Slack) this is configured via istio-discovery. The access logs then appear within the ingress-gateway pods.