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I know what eBPF is, but what is Pixie? A single sentence describing Pixie wouid be useful. In general, academic rule applies: Never write an article without d

I know what eBPF is, but what is Pixie? A single sentence describing Pixie wouid be useful. In general, academic rule applies: Never write an article without defining terms beforehand.

nserrino 6y ago
Engineer from Pixie here. Pixie is an APM tool for Kubernetes leveraging eBPF for automatic data collection. You can use it to monitor and debug your application performance, without code or configuration changes.
- alfanick 6y ago
  APM? /s
  - nserrino 6y ago
    /s noted (but point also taken). For those unfamiliar: APM = application performance monitoring. Essentially, figuring out why your application is slow or broken.
    - torbital 6y ago
      Couldn't this just be called 'monitoring'?
      - mleonhard 6y ago
        New Relic calls it something different so they can charge a lot more for it.
  - mykhamill 6y ago
    Application Performance Monitoring https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/new-relic-apm/getting-started/introduction-apm https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/new-relic-apm/getting-sta...
- eatmyshorts 6y ago
  You're being too modest. Pixie is a general purpose observability and monitoring tool, with especially strong attributes around APM.
- hdz 6y ago
  Any plans to bring this to Cloud Foundry?