Zero Code Instrumentation with eBPF
Instrumenting applications for observability is often harder than it should be. Traditional approaches depend on language-specific libraries that vary widely in maturity, complexity, and support — making consistent instrumentation across services a real challenge. Grafana Beyla changes that. Built on eBPF, Beyla provides zero code instrumentation for HTTP and gRPC services directly at the kernel level — no code changes, no language-specific libraries. It works seamlessly across a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, making it the easiest way to start your observability journey in modern microservices environments. In this talk, we’ll explore how Beyla simplifies observability and demonstrate its capabilities in real-world scenarios. We’ll also share exciting news: Grafana Labs has donated Beyla to the OpenTelemetry project, and we’re now collaborating on the new OpenTelemetry eBPF instrumentation SIG — joining forces to build a next generation eBPF instrumentation tool backed by the community.
Speaker
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Fabian StäberGrafana LabsDr. Fabian Stäber is engineering manager and observability enthusiast at Grafana Labs. He is a member of the Prometheus open source project, where he is maintainer of the Prometheus Java client library and the JMX exporter. At Grafana Fabian has his focus on application observability with OpenTelemetry.