eBPF monitoring support for Linux hosts
I have seen this with some other enterprise solutions and it’s a popular choice when we don’t want ‘APM’ level metrics but we are interested in the HTTP metrics such as requests/sec, error/sec, etc. ...
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Something to think about: LM doesn’t (and will likely never) generate metrics. It only gathers metrics. eBPF looks like a way of generating metrics, so really the only thing to think about is how to gather those metrics into LM. The first thing that comes to mind is opentelemetry and the second is fluentd.
Does eBPF support streaming metrics through the opentelemetry protocol? If so, the existing methods for ingesting OTel data could be used, although they are limited through licensing to APM customers because they’re the most common users of OTel. If this kind of metric can be streamed through the OTel protocol, LM might have to think about decoupling the collection method and the data and licensing on the kind of data received (infrastructure management like eBPF, or trace data like APM) instead of the protocol used to collect it.
Does FluentD have a plugin for receiving eBPF telemetry data? If so, you could easily use the LM gem in FluentD to turn that data around and put it into LM Logs. From there, when LogSources are eventually released, their functionality should cover converting that data from logs into datapoints that can be graphed/alerted on.
I cringe whenever someone says LM can’t do something, because usually if LM can’t do it, it’s because it can’t be done.
By that logic, LM shouldn’t have support integration into anything - just provide a platform to run groovy functions and hope someone comes up with a shoddy solution to dump data in.
I expect an enterprise product - to keep on top of new technologies and support newer metric collection methods so you don’t have to create a custom solution for everything.
My point being, LogicMonitor should support polling/prasing this data directly via their collectors… like other vendors are doing. If I didn't think LM can support this, I wouldn’t be raising it as a request idea… it clearly can, just a matter of adding official support into the product to do so… which I am sure LM as a vendor is in a better position to do than any individual contributor.
