The OpenTelemetry eBPF project develops components that collect and analyze telemetry from the operating system, cloud, and container orchestrators. Its initial focus is on collecting network data to enable users to gain insight into their distributed applications.

The kernel collector gathers low level telemetry straight from the Linux kernel using eBPF. It does so with negligible compute and network overheads. The kubernetes collector and cloud collector gather workload metadata.

This telemetry is then sent to the reducer, which enriches and aggregates it. The reducer outputs metrics to the OpenTelemetry collector.

For instructions on how to build the repository, see the Developer Guide.

For instructions on how to get OpenTelemetry-eBPF up-and-running, check the documentation for the individual components:

• reducer
• kernel-collector
• cloud-collector
• k8s-collector

Check out the Developer Guide.

See the Roadmap for an overwiew of the project's goals.

Triagers (@open-telemetry/ebpf-triagers)

• Antoine Toulme, Splunk
• Actively seeking contributors to triage issues

Approvers (@open-telemetry/ebpf-approvers):

• Samiur Arif, Splunk
• Actively seeking approvers to review pull requests

Maintainers (@open-telemetry/ebpf-maintainers):

• Borko Jandras
• Jim Wilson, DataDog
• Jonathan Perry

Learn more about roles in the community repository.

You can connect with us in our slack channel.

The OpenTelemetry eBPF special interest group (SIG) meets regularly, and the meetting is held every week on Tuesday at 09:00 Pacific time. See the eBPF Workgroup Meeting Notes for a summary description of past meetings.