The default trace sampling rate for Jaeger in Istio is 1%, meaning, to get a single trace in Jaeger you need to send at least 100 requests to your application. This is good for a production environment but in dev or QA you would want a better sampling rate. Unfortunately, Istio doesn't give any UI or dashboard to view/edit lots of settings and options which it uses. The documentation related to this is also hard to find. If you are installing using istioctl then keep an eye for ' values.pilot.traceSampling ' option. See more details about this and other options here. If istio is already installed and running, we need to edit the ' istio-pilot ' deployment and change the PILOT_TRACE_SAMPLING environment variable by running below command: $ kubectl -n istio-system edit deploy istio-pilot This opens vim (or whatever your default text editor) window with the deployment config file and lets you edit the value (which ranges from 0.0 to 100.0) Just make