OpenTelemetry and eBPF: Correlated Signals for Better Observability

OpenTelemetry and eBPF are two of the most exciting developments in cloud-native observability — but they’re often treated as separate concerns. What happens when you bring them together?

eBPF gives you deep, low-overhead kernel-level visibility with no code changes required. OpenTelemetry gives you a vendor-neutral standard for traces, metrics, and logs. Combined, they produce correlated signals that paint a complete picture of your system — from the application layer all the way down to the kernel.

This talk walks through how to instrument a Kubernetes environment using both technologies, how to correlate the signals they produce, and what insights become possible when you stop treating observability tooling as separate silos.