Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

There's an arms race to add eBPF (BPF) to commercial observability products, and in this post I'll describe how to quickly do that. This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You might not even like BPF. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. " I pictured how this is used to walk stack traces in my BPF book. What are frame pointers?

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

There's an arms race to add [eBPF] (BPF) to commercial observability products, and in this post I'll describe how to quickly do that. This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You might not even like BPF. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems.

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