18What can eBPF-based observability see that a normal agent cannot, and when is it not worth adding?▼mediumNewNetflixCloudflareDatadog○ sign inThe kernel watches syscalls, sockets and short-lived processes that userspace agents polling every few seconds never meet. Know what eBPF adds, what it costs, and the security conversation it starts.Open full answer →
40Latency regressed 30 percent and traces show the time is inside one service. Now what?▼hardNewDatadogGoogleUber◆ premiumTracing tells you which service and which span. It stops at the function boundary, and that is exactly where a CPU regression lives. Continuous profiling is the layer most teams do not have when they need it.Open full answer →
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