Beyla: Zero-Code Distributed Traces & Metrics for Your Microservices with eBPF
summary
Beyla claims to auto-instrument running services without redeploys by attaching eBPF programs on hosts and in Kubernetes, requiring only two config items (which pods/namespaces to target and where to export data). The demo runs a Go frontend→backend→workers app with a load generator and shows fully distributed tracing for Go, HTTP/HTTP2/gRPC and RED metrics exported over OpenTelemetry/Prometheus to Grafana Cloud, route grouping to avoid cardinality, and experimental L2–L4 metrics; SQL and message queues are planned.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:42What is auto-instrumentation?
- 3:13Beyla native eBPF auto-instrumentation
- 4:47Application instrumentation: metrics
- 8:12Beyla demo
- 14:15Future plans of Beyla
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