BPF Performance Tools

Chapter 17. Other BPF Performance Tools

This chapter tours other observability tools built upon BPF. These are all open source and freely available online. (Thanks to my colleague Jason Koch on the Netflix performance engineering team for developing much of this chapter.)

While this book contains dozens of command-line BPF tools, it is expected that most people will end up using BPF tracing via GUIs. This is especially the case for cloud computing environments composed of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of instances; these are, of necessity, usually administered via GUIs. Studying the BPF tools covered in previous chapters should help you use and understand these BPF-based GUIs, which are created as front ends to the same tools.

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