Nikola Grcevski

Migrate Prometheus metrics to use the OTel SDK

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At the time we added the Prometheus support the Otel SDK didn't have direct Prometheus support, but now they do. We can simplify the code by declaring the metrics once,...

Aquasecurity has a community project that keeps an archive of BTF images for older kernels, which we can leverage to allow for older kernel support. https://github.com/aquasecurity/btfhub https://github.com/aquasecurity/btfhub-archive

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Currently the Kafka instrumentation we have in the project is instrumenting `kafka-go` from segment.io, however Shopify/IBM Sarama seems widely popular...

Improve debug information for old kernels

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We can't use bpf_sprintk on kernels before 5.13, which prevents us from seeing BPF debug logs on older kernels. With this change we at least see the string format, without...

Using helm install works well for Beyla, but once you install you are unable to see the Helm deployment with `helm list`. It shows in k9s, but something related to...

The OTel spec collapses the server status for 2xx and 4xx HTTP codes into one, however for metrics purposes sometimes monitoring 4xx errors is important, especially around deployment of new...

This package has been gaining popularity recently and we should look into adding support for it. https://github.com/search?q=github.com%2Fgofiber%2Ffiber%2Fv2&type=code Beyla discussion link https://github.com/grafana/beyla/discussions/1031

Optimize Go object allocation

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I made a few changes to reduce the amount of transient memory we allocate. With this change, the majority of allocations are out of our control. Very little is in...

Cross node distributed tracing through TCP packets

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Extend the hackathon prototype for passing information through TCP packets for context propagation. This feature will be an extension to our current context propagation, where instead of using a BPF...