How does Anthos Service Mesh help?

Tool and technology integration that makes up Anthos service mesh delivers significant operational benefits to Anthos environments, with minimal additional overhead such as follows:

• Uniform observability - the data plane reports service to service communication back to the control plane generating a service dependency graph. Traffic inspection by the proxy inserts headers to facilitate distributed tracing, capturing and reporting service logs together with service-level metrics (i.e latency, errors, availability).
• Operational agility - fine-grained controls for managing the flow of inter-mesh (north-south) and intra-mesh (east-west) traffic are provided.
• Policy-driven security - policies can be enforced consistently across diverse protocols and runtimes as service communications are secured by default.