title: Getting Envoy Access Logs with Istio on GKE
body: <p>I'd like Envoy's Istio access logs (i.e. logs that record every HTTP request) to show up somewhere inside Stackdriver logging. I've tried following the steps in <a href="https://istio.io/docs/tasks/telemetry/logs/access-log/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://istio.io/docs/tasks/telemetry/logs/access-log/</a>. However, the default <code>accessLogFile</code> setting for Istio on GKE seems to be empty, and if I try to change it with <code>kubectl edit configmap -n istio-system istio</code>, it gets reset by the system after a few minute.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to push Istio on GKE's access logs into Stackdriver?</p>