Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation - OpenObservability Talks S6E05

eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs. Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project. Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark". You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1 Show Notes: 00:00 - episode intro 02:11 - guest intro 05:15 - Beyla origins 08:45 - OBI for app monitoring 14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation 23:12 - OBI trace support 33:58 - OBI components 43:39 - Beyla project new focus 47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG 51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs 54:59 - OBI roadmap 59:26 - outro Resources: OBI on GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/ Grafana Beyla donation: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/ eBPF for continuous profiling and the Parca project: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498 eBPF for tracing and OTel GoLang Auto-instrumentation SIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFykWV1mLAI&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D eBPF for Kubernetes monitoring and the Pixie project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D&index=52 Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Mario Macías =========== LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariomac/ Mastodon: https://masto.es/@macias Socials: BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠ YouTube:⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.