sages are intercepted by the sidecar and routed to the destination according to the configured rules, including the communication with external services. The MongoDB was defined as a <code>ServiceEntry</code>.</p><figure style=width:70%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:74.41253263707573%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.5/pt-br/blog/2019/egress-performance/case2_sidecar_passthru3.png title="Sidecar intercepting traffic to external MongoDB"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.