Grafana Labs and Isovalent have formed a strategic partnership to enhance observability for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure by combining Grafana's open-source observability stack with Isovalent's Cilium, an eBPF-powered connectivity and security tool. This collaboration addresses challenges in gaining comprehensive connectivity observability for modern API-driven applications, which involve complex, layered network structures and ephemeral identifiers, by leveraging eBPF technology to provide deep, service-identity-aware insights without requiring changes to application code. Cilium generates detailed connectivity metrics and events that integrate seamlessly with Grafana's LGTM stack, offering powerful solutions for issues such as API-layer faults and network-layer bottlenecks. The partnership is seen as a significant advancement in simplifying and enhancing the monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for application owners and Kubernetes platform teams, with ongoing developments expected to further expand its impact.