Groundcover, the eBPF-powered observability platform, has announced a new integration with OpenTelemetry, which will provide customers with deeper insights into performance, user behavior, and errors.
The company uses eBPF technology to provide observability for cloud-native architecture, and it can trace any type of event from network and infrastructure to services and applications. The company explained that by using eBPF to collect observability data, it can provide very granular visibility into what’s happening inside an application.
With the new integration with the open-source project OpenTelemetry, groundcover can help customers avoid vendor lock-in and collect data in a standardized way, the company explained.
Users will now be able to trace which services have spoken to each other using distributed tracing, and then use eBPF to gather information, such as the user ID that made the request, what device they used, and associated error messages.
According to the company, this would have previously required two sets of tools and dashboards, but now it can all be done within groundcover’s platform.
“We firmly believe in the value of OpenTelemetry and the way it empowers organizations to generate, process, and flexibly collect and route traces in a standardized way,” said Orr Benjamin, VP of product at groundcover. “But it requires expertise and manual instrumentation that often leaves blind areas if not done 100% properly. eBPF solves that by providing automatic kernel-level instrumentation and deep information like the full payload of captured traces and relevant correlations to the infrastructure layer. Now engineers can have both the power of OpenTelemetry’s distributed tracing and the deep instant coverage of eBPF in a single UX.”
