Logs told me something broke. Traffic showed me what.

Speedscale’s BYOC approach is presented as a way to capture production request and response traffic for debugging while keeping sensitive data inside a customer’s own cloud environment. Its eBPF agent captures node-level traffic without application changes, sends it through a forwarder where DLP filtering can be applied, and exports it in OpenTelemetry logging format to a customer-managed Elasticsearch cluster in their VPC. A Helm deployment provides Elasticsearch, Kibana, an OpenTelemetry collector, and dashboards for monitoring traffic, latency, status codes, and endpoints, while Kibana enables inspection of individual requests and raw payloads. The included es-gather.py script retrieves selected service traffic into a local snapshot compatible with proxymock, allowing developers or approved AI tools to identify anomalous inputs, inspect complete exchanges, and replay production requests against local builds. In the example, replaying captured traffic exposed a control character in a rocket ID query parameter that caused repeated HTTP 500 errors, demonstrating how raw traffic can reproduce failures that logs and traces alone may not fully explain.

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