11 months ago

Israeli-startup Groundcover is using a new eBPF observability tool — called the https://www.groundcover.com/blog/ebpf-observability-agent agent — that it says bests other application monitoring tools such as DataDog and https://opentelemetry.io/ when running on a Kubernetes node alongside New Relic’s Pixie agent and Groundcover’s Flora agent. When combining the resources consumed by the different agents tested and the overhead measured on the monitored application, Flora consumed a total CPU that was similar to the one used by OpenTelemetry and the Pixie agent, but that was 73% less than the CPU consumed by Datadog, the blog post stated. “Additionally Flora consumed 74%, 77% and 96% less memory than Datadog, OpenTelemetry and the Pixie agent, respectively,” it added.

Often companies are still not getting 100% of the data for observability; some are struggling to achieve 10% to 15% of observability data, he added.

Every tested application flavor ran alongside the bare minimum components required for monitoring according to the relevant test case.