Company
Date Published
Author
Marc Tuduri
Word count
1217
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Grafana Beyla has been integrated into Grafana Alloy as the default eBPF-based auto-instrumentation solution, enabling users to automatically capture metrics and traces from running services and connect to existing telemetry pipelines. Grafana Alloy, an open-source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector, supports OTLP-compatible pipelines for various telemetry formats and has recently been updated to version 1.1, featuring Grafana Beyla 1.5. With this integration, users can obtain RED metrics without modifying their code and automatically instrument applications within Kubernetes environments using Helm charts. The blog post details the configuration steps for both scenarios, emphasizing the ease of deployment and potential for customization. Future updates are expected to include more configuration options for Beyla, support for additional protocols, and enhanced eBPF-based features like network monitoring.