# istio_deferred_stats_creation.yaml
apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: feature
area: traffic-management

releaseNotes:
- |
  **Added** an experimental feature to enable lazily create subset of Envoy staistics.
  This will save memory and CPU cycles when creating the objects that own these stats,
  if those stats are never referenced throughout the lifetime of the process.
  This can be disabled by setting ENABLE_DEFERRED_STATS_CREATION to false in agent Deployment.