<p>I have a question, i deployed my Prometheus on k8s cluster and integrated it with istio to push metrics of my application pods. But in the targets page i see some endpoint URLs having ips which are not POD ips or Service ips as below
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<p>What is that ip and the port?</p>

Shoaib Mohammed
<p>It's the IP of <a href="https://istio.io/docs/ops/deployment/architecture/#citadel" rel="nofollow noreferrer">citadel</a> pod deployed by istio. Citadel is an istio component which enables strong service-to-service and end-user authentication with built-in identity and credential management.You can check the citadel pod deployed in the namespace where you have deployed istio or in the <code>istio-system</code> namespace.</p>
