How to disable istio-proxy sidecar access log for specific deployments in Kubernetes

Question

I'm using istio-proxy sidecar with Kubernetes, sidecars are automatically added to the Kubernetes pods. I want to turn off the access log for one single deployment (without disabling the sidecar). is there an annotation to do that?

Answer 1

As I mentioned in comments

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If you want to disable envoy’s access logging globally you can use istioctl/operator to do that.

There is istio documentation about that.

Remove, or set to "", the meshConfig.accessLogFile setting in your Istio install configuration.

There is istioctl command:

istioctl install --set meshConfig.accessLogFile=""

There is an example with istio operator:

apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
spec:
  profile: default
  meshConfig:
    accessLogFile: ""

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If you want to disable it for a specific pod you can use use below command, there is envoy documentation about that.

curl -X POST http://localhost:15000/logging?level=off 

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As you're looking for a way to do that for deployment that trick with init container and above curl command might actually work.