Insightful Traffic Monitoring: Harnessing Cilium for Comprehensive Network Observability

Explore how eBay leverages Cilium and eBPF technology for comprehensive network monitoring in this conference presentation from KubeCon. Learn about monitoring traffic flows and generating real-time events across thousands of microservices running on millions of containers in hundreds of Kubernetes clusters. Discover the innovative architecture behind mapping microservice dependencies, including the integration of OpenTelemetry for traffic event stream processing. Gain practical insights into handling large-volume data at scale, building and maintaining dependency graphs, and overcoming key challenges in cloud-native environments. Master the techniques eBay uses to achieve comprehensive network observability, from implementing eBPF-powered monitoring to constructing scalable solutions for complex microservice interactions.