Low-Overhead, Zero-Instrumentation Continuous Profiling for OpenTelemetry

Learn about Elastic's donation of a whole-system continuous profiling agent to OpenTelemetry in this 38-minute conference talk. Explore how eBPF technology enables comprehensive system visibility without requiring application instrumentation, allowing for the construction of stacktraces from kernel to userspace native code and into higher-level runtime environments. Discover the advantages of eBPF-based continuous profiling compared to traditional instrumentation methods, understand the agent's profile building process across different system layers, and examine its integration with OpenTelemetry's OTLP and Collector components. Master techniques for identifying performance issues, optimizing resource usage, and accelerating complex debugging processes through advanced profiling capabilities.