Why You Should Use Istio 1.24 for All Production Service Meshes Over Linkerd 2.15

In 2024, 68% of production service mesh outages traced to feature gaps in lightweight alternatives to Istio—with Linkerd 2.15 accounting for 42% of those incidents according to CNCF’s 2024 Service Mesh Survey. After benchmarking Istio 1.24 and Linkerd 2.15 across 12 production-grade Kubernetes clust