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Chapter.17 Other BPF Perf Tools

PCP w/ pmc-pmda-bcc, Grafana

• pmc-pmda-bcc is PCP Perf Metric Domain Agent extracting live perf data via eBPF in-kernel programs using BCC. Available via Grafana PCP plug-in.

• pmcd (Perf Metric Collector Daemon) is central PCP component coordinates metric collection from agents.

• pmwebd is REST gateway to pmcd instance for web-ui.

RHEL's Doc on settin-up this setup.

Cloudflare eBPF Prometheus Exporter

• ebpf_exporter to export custom eBPF metrics.

kubectl-trace

• kubectl trace plug-in allowing scheduled execution of bpftrace programs on K8s cluster.

kubectl trace run node/ip-10-0-0-41 -f /usr/share/bpftrace/tools/vfsstat.bt

kubectl trace get

kubectl trace logs -f $KUBECTL_TRACE_NAME_FROM_GET

Other Tools

• Cillium, Sysdig, Android eBPF, osquery eBPF, ply.

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