eBPF + OTel: Two Layers, One Observability Strategy

Webinar & Live Demo: 9 AM (PST) / 12 PM (EST)

Every observability strategy starts the same way: instrument the services. But that breaks down once you have a few hundred of them, including services you inherited and can't redeploy, languages with alpha-stage instrumentation libraries, and request paths crossing into services another team hasn't touched since 2023

Past a certain size, "complete instrumentation" isn't a goal you're behind on: it's one you'll never reach, and outages happen in exactly those gaps.

This webinar makes the case that neither layer replaces the other:

  • eBPF delivers immediate, universal coverage of every process and network path — no code changes, no redeployments, including services nobody got around to instrumenting
  • OpenTelemetry delivers the application context eBPF can't see — business identifiers, query shapes, span attributes

The real engineering challenge is deciding where each one earns its overhead.

Live demo: three failure modes where eBPF and OpenTelemetry each answer half the question, and where relying on only one leaves you guessing.

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Our Speakers

Anais Dotis | Developer Relations, groundcover

David Flanagan | Founder of Rawkode Academy & K8s expert

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Said Sinai Rijcov,

DevOps Engineer at EX.CO.

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Prod Eng Team Lead, Similarweb

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