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@ jb55
2025-05-10 18:22:04
I’ve never used otel but this is what o3 says:
Reach for OpenTelemetry (OTel) instead of eBPF when the thing you care about is business‑level, portable, distributed observability—not kernel‑level tracing sorcery.
If you need cross‑OS support, rich service traces with custom attributes, painless vendor hand‑off, or you’re in an environment where you simply can’t (or won’t) run privileged kernel programs, OTel is the right hammer. eBPF shines when you want zero‑instrumentation, ultra‑low‑overhead, Linux‑only deep dives into syscalls, network flows or security events. They’re complementary, but they solve very different problems.