s the drawback that you lose Istio monitoring and control
for traffic to external services; calls to external services will not appear in the Mixer log, for example.
The next section shows you how to monitor and control your mesh&rsquo;s access to external services.</p><h2 id=controlled-access-to-external-services>Controlled access to external services</h2><p>Using Istio <code>ServiceEntry</code> configurations, you can access any publicly accessible service
from within your Istio cluster. This section show