New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
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New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
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Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
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Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#3I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on eBPF generally, it seems likely that this is where observability companies are headed. It's non-trivial to implement but monitoring from the kernel layer makes so much sense that I expect the tooling will come along quickly.
Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#4I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on eBPF generally, it seems likely that this is where observability companies are headed. It's non-trivial to implement but monitoring from the kernel layer makes so much sense that I expect the tooling will come along quickly.
eBPF is great but it only works for linux and access to the kernel layer doesn't work for serverless environments, so it's definitely a piece of the puzzle but not a silver bullet IMO.
Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#5I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on eBPF generally, it seems likely that this is where observability companies are headed. It's non-trivial to implement but monitoring from the kernel layer makes so much sense that I expect the tooling will come along quickly.
What's the advantage of monitoring from the kernel layer? It's not jumping out at me...
Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#6I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on eBPF generally, it seems likely that this is where observability companies are headed. It's non-trivial to implement but monitoring from the kernel layer makes so much sense that I expect the tooling will come along quickly.
eBPF is great but it only works for linux and access to the kernel layer doesn't work for serverless environments, so it's definitely a piece of the puzzle but not a silver bullet IMO.
Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here.
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.
Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#7I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on eBPF generally, it seems likely that this is where observability companies are headed. It's non-trivial to implement but monitoring from the kernel layer makes so much sense that I expect the tooling will come along quickly.
For hardware management maybe but so much of "observability" in general is at the application layer I can't see BPF displacing anything more than a tiny corner of it.
On the other hand - it already is overhauling service meshes, VPNs and firewalls and network security policies, etc. The stuff fly.io is debuting now is probably going to be standard in few years.
Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#8seems ambitious. why would a public company like new relic do this?
Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#9seems ambitious. why would a public company like new relic do this?
Co-Founder/CPO of Pixie here.
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.
Re: New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
#10What does signing a definitive agreement mean?