Zero-code application observability with Grafana Beyla and eBPF | Demo

The eBPF-based OSS auto-instrumentation tool Grafana Beyla makes it easier to get started with application observability. Beyla provides RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) metrics through OpenTelemetry or Prometheus for your existing web services, whichever language they are written in. You don’t need to change any line of application code or configuration; you only need to deploy the Beyla in the same host as the service that you want to monitor.

Collecting monitoring data with the eBPF auto-instrument tool has very low overhead, and allows you to capture data about your runtime, which is impossible with manual code instrumentation. Watch this in-depth demo of how to use Grafana Beyla to get started with application observability.

Chapters:
2:42: Deploying Grafana Beyla as a Daemonset
3:29: Selecting the executables you want to instrument
4:20: Providing extra information (extra configuration or hints)
8:37 Visualizing Beyla in Grafana
9:55 Using Application Observability

[rahulsadarangani]

Does this only work with Grafana Cloud or we can run with our own Self Hosted Loki and tempo setup as well.

[renobodyrenobody]

Thanks. I've installed beyla these days and I take all the information I can find!

[sparkfire]

This looks awesome! When you pointed to Prometheus endpoint in grafana, how were the traces pulled from that data. Wouldn't that need to come from logs ?

[clablab-cn]

Amazing! Can you please share the project source code so I can following along?

[samtx]

Does this work with spring boot app, java