Deep Network Traffic Observability with Pktvisor and Prometheus

Explore deep network traffic observability using Pktvisor and Prometheus in this 24-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. Discover how to extract valuable insights from high-throughput network traffic for operations, debugging, and security purposes. Learn about the challenges of efficient analysis and collection of deeply inspected traffic in globally distributed applications. Dive into the implementation of pktvisor, a free and open-source observability agent developed by NS1 for their global DNS network. Understand how pktvisor utilizes real-time streaming algorithms to efficiently extract key information from various networking layers. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates installation with containers, configuration, metrics collection to Prometheus via scrape or remote write, and querying Prometheus to visualize results. Gain insights into the future of the project, including full remote configuration and fleet management capabilities. The talk covers topics such as the Prometheus ecosystem, sample dashboards, viewing metrics, and the Orb Project, including the Orb Platform, Agent, and User Interface.