<p>I am playing with an idea of using istio for some of the features, however I find it hard to find any reasonable estimates of the latency it adds to every call. 1ms for every service call seems like a lot, especially once there are 10 services involved in a chain, each having request&amp;response passing through istio.</p>

<p>Has anybody measured latency penalty for having sidecar proxy introduced?</p>

Matej Briškár
<p><a href="https://medium.com/@michael_87395/benchmarking-istio-linkerd-cpu-at-scale-5f2cfc97c7fa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This post</a> does a benchmark of Istio and Linkerd to compare both service meshes in different aspects like CPU, memory or latency.</p>
