Published on: 5/3/2022, 4:23:00 PM - Reading time: 0 minute
eBPF application monitoring on Kubernetes
Just a quick one, since I recently found out about Pixie which is a super interesting opensource project recently bought by NewRelic. It's an agent which you can install on your k8s cluster (or on your standard VM). It uses eBPF [https://ebpf.io/] to collect deep data from Linux Kernel, granting the ability to monitor an application without the need of an APM (Application Performance Management). It promises a maximum 5% overhead. The frontend uses PxL Script (which is similar to python + pand