New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform
Summary
Thats why New Relics contribution of Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform, which is in the process of becoming a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project under the Apache 2.0 license is good news. With Pixie, you dont need to add instrumentation code, set up ad hoc dashboards, or move data off of the cluster, to see whats going on. Within your clusters, PEMs leverage Pixies eBPF program to collect network transactions and system metrics with no code changes. Mark Carter, Amazon Web Services (AWS) general manager of observability services, added: "With eBPF, a new instrumentation capability in Linux that is supported by the Pixie Platform, developers and operators can take advantage of a new observability superpower." As Bill Staples, New Relic president, blogged: "The dynamic, distributed nature of these [cloud-native] environments presents a new set of observability challenges.
