Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
by pstuart on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:18PM
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I caught your presentation to GoSF a couple weeks ago -- it was very impressive and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to apply lessons learned from that.
https://github.com/pixie-labs/pixie/tree/main/demos/simple-g...
p.s. The slides would be nice to have too :-)
Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
by zasgar on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:16PM
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Thanks for attending the talk:
Slides: https://www2.slideshare.net/ZainAsgar/no-instrumentation-gol...
Write up: https://blog.pixielabs.ai/ebpf-http-tracing/ https://blog.pixielabs.ai/ebpf-function-tracing/post/
Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
by ed_elliott_asc on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:32AM
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Hi,
Why do you need the kernel support if you modify the binaries, why not insert a function to write your logs and then insert a call to that function rather than relying on kernel support via an int 3?
Curious really.
eBPF is indeed a part of the puzzle. It allows us to access telemetry data without any manual instrumentation when running on Linux machines.
Pixie itself is extendable and currently ingests data from many other sources as well. Joining forces with New Relic will allow us to focus on expanding the open-source project, but also expand our capabilities by plugging into other open APIs and frameworks such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus.