SouthEast Linux Fest 2024

Zero-instrumentation observability based on eBPF
06-09, 10:00–10:50 (EST5EDT), System76 (BallroomA)

System observability is crucial for issue resolution but demands significant time and resources. This talk focuses on leveraging eBPF to gather telemetry data like metrics, logs, and traces. We'll also explore tracking container activities and using telemetry for troubleshooting effectively.


Observability is a critical aspect of any infrastructure, as it allows teams to identify and troubleshoot issues quickly. However, making a system observable is not without its costs. It's quite a time- and resource-consuming process since it requires adding instrumentation into every application.
In this talk, we’ll learn how to gather telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces using eBPF. We'll explore how to track various container activities, such as network calls and filesystem operations.
Then, we'll discuss how to effectively use this telemetry data for troubleshooting.

Nikolay Sivko, Founder & CEO at Coroot, is on a mission to make production troubleshooting easier for developers everywhere. He's deeply enthusiastic about SRE practices, observability, open source solutions. With over a decade of hands-on experience in the Observability field, Nikolay is a seasoned expert who brings practical insights.

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Peter Zaitsev, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, and FerretDB, is an expert in Open Source strategy and database optimization. Peter also advises numerous open-source startups and co-authored the book "High Performance MySQL."

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