Sidecarless Mesh Monitoring with eBPF and Grafana - Adam Sayah, Solo.io
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2022-11-01

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Sidecarless Mesh Monitoring with eBPF and Grafana - Adam Sayah, Solo.io

Service Mesh technologies were invented to fill the gap created in the micro-service world, especially when it comes to security and monitoring. Usually using a side car, a service mesh will inject metrics that can be gathered and rendered using the Prometheus and Grafana stack but the growing discussion around sidecarless services meshes and eBPF invite us to ask the following question, what are the pros and cons of a sidecarless monitoring stack in comparison to a sidecar approach? in this talk we will explore this subject in detail: - We will look into eBPF and the possibilities offered by this technologies. - We will compare the eBPF based monitoring to Envoy based technologies. - And finally, we will try to answer an important question, can eBPF metrics and Envoy metrics coexist, and if so how to render meaningful dashboards using Grafana.