Observability Cost-Savings and eBPF Goodness with Groundcover

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Bret is joined by Shahar Azulay, Groundcover CEO and Co-Founder, to discuss their new approach to fully observe K8s and its workloads with a "hybrid observability architecture."

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Groundcover is a new, cloud-native, eBPF-based platform that designed a new model for how observability solutions are architected and priced. It is a product that can drastically reduce your monitoring, logging, and tracing costs and complexity, it stores all its data in your clusters and only needs one agent per host for full observability and APM.

We dig into the deployment, architecture, and how it all works under the hood.

Watch the video version on YouTube. Includes demos.

★Topics★
Groundcover Discord Channel
Groundcover Repository in GitHub
Groundcover YouTube Channel
Join the Groundcover Slack

Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Shahar Azulay - Guest

• (00:00) - Intro
• (03:16) - Shahar's Background and GroundCover's Origin
• (06:34) - Where Did the Hybrid Idea Come From?
• (12:11) - GroundCover's Deployment Model
• (18:21) - Monitoring More than Kubernetes
• (20:32) - eBPF from the Ground Up
• (23:58) - How Does Groundcover read eBPF Logs?
• (32:06) - GroundCover's Stack and Compatibility
• (36:18) - The Importance of PromQL
• (37:41) - Groundcover Also OnPrem and Managed
• (49:35) - Getting Started with Groundcover
• (52:15) - Groundcover Caretta
• (54:55) - What's Next for Groundcover?

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