Zero instrumentation observability on GKE with groundcover

Zero instrumentation observability on GKE with groundcover

November 18, 9am PST

Most observability talks start with “add this SDK to your app.” This one starts in the Linux kernel.

In this session, we'll cover:

  • What eBPF is, and how it fills the gaps OpenTelemetry leaves by adding kernel-level context your instrumentation never sees
  • What the groundcover eBPF sensor shows about a running Kubernetes app without changing its code. It installs on any cluster, GKE included.
  • A live walkthrough: starting from a real SLO breach, using agent mode and the Cursor connector to trace the problem to its source and open a pull request that fixes it

Featured Guests

Anais Dotis

Anais Dotis

Developer Relations

Featured Guests

Anais Dotis

Anais Dotis

Developer Relations

Trusted by teams who demand more

Real teams, real workloads, real results with groundcover.

“We cut our costs in half and now have full coverage in prod, dev, and testing environments where we previously had to limit it due to cost concerns.”

Sushant Gulati

Sr Engineering Mgr, BigBasket

“Observability used to be scattered and unreliable. With groundcover, we finally have one consolidated, no-touch solution we can rely on.“

ShemTov Fisher

DevOps team lead
Solidus Labs

“We went from limited visibility to a full-cluster view in no time. groundcover’s eBPF tracing gave us deep Kubernetes insights with zero months spent on instrumentation.”

Kristian Lee

Global DevOps Lead, Tracr

“The POC took only a day and suddenly we had trace-level insight. groundcover was the snappiest, easiest observability platform we’ve touched.”

Adam Ceresia

Software Engineering Mgr, Posh

“All vendors charge on data ingest, some even on users, which doesn’t fit a growing company. One of the first things that we liked about groundcover is the fact that pricing is based on nodes, not data volumes, not number of users. That seemed like a perfect fit for our rapid growth”

Elihai Blomberg,

DevOps Team Lead, Riskified

“We got a bill from Datadog that was more then double the cost of the entire EC2 instance”

Said Sinai Rijcov,

DevOps Engineer at EX.CO.

“We ditched Datadog’s integration overhead and embraced groundcover’s eBPF approach. Now we get full-stack Kubernetes visibility, auto-enriched logs, and reliable alerts across clusters with zero code changes.”

Eli Yaacov

Prod Eng Team Lead, Similarweb

Observability
for what comes next.

Start in minutes. No migrations. No data leaving your infrastructure. No surprises on the bill.