is task, you learned how to monitor access to external services and set a timeout
rule for calls to an external service.</p><p>The third approach bypasses the Istio sidecar proxy, giving your services direct access to any external server.
However, configuring the proxy this way does require cluster-provider specific knowledge and configuration.
Similar to the first approach, you also lose monitoring of access to external services and you can&rsquo;t apply
Istio features on traffic to external services.</p><