Easy homelab observability with Grafana Beyla, powered by eBPF and OpenTelemetry
Wednesday, May 7
4:30 PM
30 mins
Main Stage
About this session
Introduced in 2023, Grafana Beyla is an open source eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool that allows you to monitor all your applications on Linux. More traditional considerations such as which languages or frameworks are used do not need to be taken into account. It just works – within Kubernetes, even – with a single Helm command. It’s a game changer for users looking to adopt OpenTelemetry with little to no effort, which is why Grafana Labs is in the process of donating Beyla upstream to the OpenTelemetry project.
In this session, Beyla maintainer Nikola Grcevski and OpenTelemetry contributor Goutham Veeramachaneni will provide an overview of the tool and demonstrate how it can be used in a common and usually under-resourced scenario for application observability: homelabs, where applications are written in many languages and frameworks and you don’t have any control over their instrumentation. Leveraging eBPF and OpenTelemetry, Beyla bridges that gap. Nikola and Goutham will talk through how to deploy Beyla with Prometheus, the power of OpenTelemetry’s semantic conventions, and how Beyla helps you observe your services with ease, in your home lab or in production.
