eBPF similarly to DTrace allows you to view internals of your OS. With SNMP you have fixed number of metrics that you can view, while with eBPF you can create n

eBPF similarly to DTrace allows you to view internals of your OS. With SNMP you have fixed number of metrics that you can view, while with eBPF you can create new ones. You could implement SNMP daemon that uses eBPF to get the data, and perhaps that will happen in the future if it already didn't.