Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation - OpenObservability Talks S6E05

About this episode

The episode discusses OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and its implications for automatic observability.

eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs. Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project. Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark". You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1 Show Notes: 00:00 - episode intro 02:11 - guest intro 05:15 - Beyla origins 08:45 - OBI for app monitoring 14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation 23:12 - OBI trace support 33:58 - OBI components 43:39 - Beyla project new focus 47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG 51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs 54:59 - OBI…

People in this episode

Host: Dotan Horovits

Guest: Mario Macías

Topics covered

• eBPF
• OpenTelemetry
• auto-instrumentation
• observability
• Grafana
• software engineering

Keywords

• eBPF
• OpenTelemetry
• instrumentation
• observability
• Grafana Labs
• software engineering
• auto-instrumentation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Grafana Labs, OpenTelemetry

Products: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation

Books & works: Programación en Go, Introducción a Apache Spark

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