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# Observe service mesh through ALS
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Envoy [ALS(access log service)](https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v2/service/accesslog/v2/als.proto) provides
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fully logs about RPC routed, including HTTP and TCP.
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**If solution initialized and first implemented by [Sheng Wu](https://github.com/wu-sheng), [Hongtao Gao](https://github.com/hanahmily), [Lizan Zhou](https://github.com/lizan) and [Dhi Aurrahman](https://github.com/dio) at 17 May. 2019, and presented on [KubeCon China 2019](https://kccncosschn19eng.sched.com/event/NroB/observability-in-service-mesh-powered-by-envoy-and-apache-skywalking-sheng-wu-lizan-zhou-tetrate).**
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SkyWalking is the first open source project introducing this ALS based solution to the world. This provides a new way with very low payload to service mesh, but the same observability.
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You need three steps to open ALS.
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1. Open envoyAccessLogService in istio by [enabling **envoyAccessLogService** in ProxyConfig](https://istio.io/docs/reference/config/istio.mesh.v1alpha1/#ProxyConfig).
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2. Open SkyWalking [envoy receiver](../backend/backend-receivers.md).
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3. Active ALS k8s-mesh analysis
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```yaml
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envoy-metric:
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default:
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alsHTTPAnalysis:
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- k8s-mesh
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```
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Notice, only use this when envoy under Istio controlled, also in k8s env.
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