apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: feature
area: telemetry
releaseNotes:
- |
  **Added** a new metric (`istiod_managed_clusters`) to `istiod` to track the number of clusters managed by an

		"Number of times remote clusters took too long to sync, causing slow startup that excludes remote clusters.",
	)

	clusterType = monitoring.CreateLabel("cluster_type")

	clustersCount = monitoring.NewGauge(
		"istiod_managed_clusters",
		"Number of clusters managed by istiod",
	)

	localClusters  = clustersCount.With(clusterType.Value("local"))
	remoteClusters = clustersCount.With(clusterType.Value("remote"))
)