Flexible, Open and Easy Observability for Developers
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Pixie is an open-source, in-cluster observability platform donated to CNCF by New Relic that deploys in minutes via px CLI, Helm or YAML and uses eBPF to capture kernel-level telemetry across HTTP/2, gRPC and DB traffic (including decrypted bodies) without code instrumentation. It stores unsampled recent data (about a day) locally, offers a programmatic PixieScript (pandas-like) API, instant service maps and flame‑graph profiling for an 11‑service demo app, and supports eBPF kernel-level capture, unsampled in-cluster visibility, PixieScript analytics, OpenTelemetry ingress/egress.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:23Landscape of Durability
- 1:10Data Collection Pipeline
- 1:53Monitoring Backends
- 2:30Pixi
- 3:07What is Pixi
- 4:18What does Pixi do
- 5:33Open Source
- 5:55Demo
- 12:23Wrapup
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