This definitely is an unprecedented and forward looking investment by New Relic. While ambitious, it became evident in our conversations with them they we committed on standardizing on open source telemetry standards such as Prometheus, Open-Telemetry, Graphana etc.
We're not yet in a position to speak for them in detail but we believe this bet on our project reinforces their plan to open-source telemetry layer to accelerate the adoption of observability practices by developers.
Hope that adds some color! would be great to hear more thoughts.
Sysdig was a pioneer in harvesting data from the kernel. Their original solution required installing a kernel module and they are now moving to eBPF based approaches. The Falco project is really exciting.
Since we're a relatively new project (started 2 years ago) we started with eBPF and built our platform around it. As we open source we'll share with groups like Falco and hopefully collaborate.