In this blog post, we recap the process and methodology we used to build our eBPF-based profiler. We include techniques and examples for both compiled and interpreted languages.

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The team at ContainIQ has been working hard to release an eBPF-based profiler for a number of different languages. In the next post in this series, we’ll outline the performance improvements necessary to make this implementation feasible. The performance overhead of the function entry and exit probes is, as expected, relatively poor. Without further modifications, the code above can cause significant drags on your application. The code above could cause significantdrags on the code Above can cause major drags.

Building an eBPF-Based Profiler