Debugging Live Applications the Kubernetes Way: From a Sidecar - Joe Elliott, Grafana Labs

Debugging Live Applications the Kubernetes Way: From a Sidecar - Joe Elliott, Grafana Labs

Linux features a number of powerful debugging tools that give us insight into how our applications run in a real environment. Through live demonstration this session will present a straightforward way to begin debugging applications in a Kubernetes native way: from a sidecar. Sidecars offer a low impact way of profiling applications without installing packages or making messy changes to your nodes. The techniques demonstrated will include recording LTTng events, cpu profiling, generating Flame Graphs and dynamic tracing with BCC. These techniques will be performed against a .NET Core sample application, but that will not be the focus of the session.