CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Continuous profiling is a technique to collect stack trace granularity insight into production resource usage. It is something SREs and other engineers can enable without changes to the app, or knowing how it was compiled. This year, this powerful signal and a polyglot eBPF profiling agent were added to OpenTelemetry. Our talk explores how an existing OpenTelemetry system is better with profiling, specifically how distributed tracing fits into the picture. You'll see both tools in action on Kubernetes, including cross-service requests and how correlation of distributed traces and profiles let you answer more questions, specifically code level causality. We'll show how to leverage this data for resource utilization and even monitoring your carbon footprint. You'll leave with a concrete understanding of continuous profiling, how it relates to OpenTelemetry and how these tools combine to reduce time while adding more understanding of your Kubernetes workloads, from kernel to code.